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Cynthia’s Revels choose

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[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels II i: cupid: O, that’s my lady and mistress, madam Philautia [...] she can dance, and she knows that too; play at shuttle-cock, and that too.
at play (at)..., v.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’ s Revels I i: amo.: This hat possest mine eye exceedingly [...] what! is it a beaver? aso.: Ay, sir, I’ll assure you ’tis a beaver, it cost me eight crowns.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels V i: Your critic, or your besogno, will think these things foppery.
at besognio, n.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels I i: Save you, sweet bloods!
at blood, n.1
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels III ii: Fough! he smells all lamp-oil with studying by candle-light.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: ana.: I shall garter my hose with your guts, and that shall be your all. mer.: ’Slid, what rare fireworks be here?
at fireworks, n.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels II i: Is that your new ruff, sweet ladybird?
at ladybird, n.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: When they come in swaggering company, and will pocket up anything, may they not properly be said to be white-liver’d?
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels II i: Marry, I will come to her.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: Ods so, was this the design you travail’d with?
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: Ods my life, how he does all to be-qualify her!
at ods my life! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels III ii: A third is most in action, swims, frisks, Plays with his mistress’s paps.
at paps, n.1
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: A pox of all cockatrices!
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels V i: ’Sfoot, the carp has no tongue.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Cynthia’s Revels Induction: I wonder that any man is so mad, to come to see these rascally tits play here.
at tit, n.1
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