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The Dumbe Knight choose

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[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight I i: His eie steales to my heart, and lets it see More than it would, peace, blab no secrecie.
at blab, v.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight I i: Sirra you chop logicke, blockhead.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight I i: I thinke the knaue be madde, sirra you chop logicke, blockhead, you that haue your braine panne made of dry leather.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: Indeed mistresse, if my master should breake his arrow with foule shooting or so, I would bee glad if mine might supply the whole [sic].
at break one’s arrow (v.) under break, v.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight III i: Theirs nothing but beautie, vse and old age that puts women of my ranck out of request, and yer like old bucklers, though fewe of your gallant cauileres will weare vs, yet many of your stale Ruffins will imploy vs.
at buckler, n.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight III i: You shall take them as they clip each other. Euen in the height of sin, then dam them both.
at clip, v.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: Indeed mistresse, if my master should breake his arrow with foule shooting or so, I would bee glad if mine might supply the whole [sic].
at hole, n.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight I i: Here you shall sweare by hope, by heauen, by Ioue [...] So help you Ioue.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight I i: Well sir, I may go or so, but would my mistresse take a standing of my preferment, I would so mount her, shee should loue strange things the better all her life after.
at mount, v.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: pre.: Indeed mistresse, if my master should breake his arrow with foule shooting or so, I would bee glad if mine might supply the whole [sic] [...] prat.: Go to sirra, I will not haue your kindness to intermeddle with her kinde, she is meate for your master. pre.: And your man sir, may licke your foule trencher. wife col.: I but not eate of his mutton.
at mutton, n.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight III i: Direct me to her bed chamber, my noble firelock of a flesh pistoll.
at pistol, n.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: Indeed, mistress, if my master should break his arrow with foul shooting or so, I would be glad if mine might supply the hole.
at shoot, v.
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: She may seeme a little rough at the first; but if you stand stifly to her, shee’le fall.
at stand, v.1
[UK] Machin & Markham Dumbe Knight II i: wife col.: I but not eate of his mutton. pre.: Yet I may deep my bread in the woole, Mistresse Colloquintida. prat.: Goe to sirra, you will bee obscene.
at wool, n.1
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