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Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant choose

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[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 12: Could lady L—r well resist / [...] / And flew from English shrivel’d beef, / To taste of french bouillé.
at beef, n.1
[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 16: St—t claps it in his valet’s b—m; / H—ll fingers it, and some / Like Dam—r never use it.
at bum, n.1
[UK] in Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant n.p.: [advert] In the Press, and Speedily will be published, in two Vols. [...] NOCTURNAL REVELS; or, The History of Modern Nunneries [...] with the Portraits of the most celebrated Demireps and Courtezans of this Period.
at nunnery, n.
[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 15: Who wantons in the Paphian train; / Possess’d of plant, and guineas.
at Paphian, n.
[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 9: This plant, enrich’d with sense and life, / Pleases the widow, and the wife.
at sensitive plant, n.
[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 7: She from the Colonel did receive / Breeding and French, and learnt to give / Poor Peregrine, a prong-head.
at prong, n.
[UK] Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant 13: The pods so full, the stem so long, / So succulent the root.
at root, n.1
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