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[UK] Fletcher Wife for a Month I i: There’s no such cure for the she-falling sickness As the powder of a dryed Bawds Skin.
at falling sickness, n.
[UK] Fletcher Wife for a Month III i: If you hit her, Be sure you hit her home, and kill her with it; There are such women that will dye with pleasure.
at hit, v.
[UK] Fletcher Wife for a Month V i: As many mourning Bawds for thee, And holy Nuns, whose vestal fire ne’r vanishes, In sackcloth Smocks, as if thou wert Heir apparent To all the impious Suburbs, and the sink-holes.
at nun, n.
[UK] Fletcher Wife for a Month IV i: ‘There be young Ladies Both fair and honourable, that would leap to reach ’em, And leap aloft too.’ ‘Such are light enough; I am no Vaulter.’.
at vaulter, n.
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