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[UK] W. Davenant Albovine I i: Paradine is A soft, easy fool, and must be gull’d.
at easy, adj.
[UK] W. Davenant Albovine I i: She is none o’th’ French nursery that practise The sublime frisk. None o’ your jigging girls, That perch paraquitoes on their fists, And ride to the Court like Venus’ falconers.
at frisk, n.2
[UK] W. Davenant Albovine I i: She is none o’th’ French nursery that practise The sublime frisk. None o’ your jigging girls, That perch paraquitoes on their fists, And ride to the Court like Venus’ falconers.
at jig, v.1
[UK] W. Davenant Albovine III i: grim: Well, gentlemen, I must be furnished too. cuny: With a mistress? grim: Yes, enquire me out some old land-carack.
at land carrack (n.) under land, n.3
[UK] W. Davenant Albovine I i: When I see her, I grow proud below the navel.
at proud, adj.
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