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The rise and fall of madam Coming-Sir : or, An Unfortunate slip from the tavern-bar, Into the Surgeon's Powdering-Tub choose

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[UK] N. Ward Madam Coming-Sir 364: Like a true good Humour’d Prostitute, who, at the Expence of a Bottle Resigns her Ultimate [she] will open the Secret, and give you leave to enter the Premises without any further Hesitation or Delay.
at premises, n.
[UK] N. Ward Madam Coming-Sir 397: It was greatly fear’d, that Man who had first the Tillage of the Ground, must have been call’d in to have Reap’d the Harvest.
at tillage (n.) under till, v.
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