"pickpurse" meaning in English

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          "text": "Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.",
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          "ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1",
          "text": "No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.",
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        "One who steals purses, or money from purses."
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          "word": "pickpocket"
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