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Volpone choose

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[UK] Jonson Volpone III i: O, your parasite Is a most precious thing, dropt from above, Not bred ’mongst clods and clodpoles, here on earth.
at clod, n.1
[UK] Jonson Volpone IV ii: Here’s the ravisher, The rider on men’s wives.
at rider, n.
[UK] Jonson Volpone Argument: New tricks for safety are sought; they thrive: when bold, Each tempts the other again, and all are sold.
at sell, v.
[UK] Jonson Volpone II i: Worshipful merchants, ay, and senators too [...] have detained me to their uses, by their splendidous liberalities.
at splendacious, adj.
[UK] Jonson Volpone I i: He cannot be so stupid, or stone-dead.
at stone, adv.
[UK] Jonson Volpone I i: When you do come to swim in golden lard, Up to the arms in honey.
at swim in golden grease (v.) under swim, v.
[UK] Jonson Volpone II i: These turdy-facy-nasty-paty-lousy-fartical rogues.
at turdy (adj.) under turd, n.
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