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[UK] Massinger Picture III iv: Cannot you clicket Without a fee?
at clicket, v.
[UK] Massinger Picture V i : Yeoman pheuterer? Such another word to your Gouernor, and you goe Supperlesse to bed for’t.
at foutre, v.
[UK] Massinger Picture III vi: [She] danc’d to his hornpipe or there are liars abroad.
at hornpipe, n.
[UK] Massinger Picture I ii: All kinds of females, from the night-trader, in the street.
at night trader (n.) under night, n.
[UK] Massinger Picture V i: Just such a one as you use to a brace of gray-houndes, When they are ledd out of their kennels to scumber.
at scumber, v.
[UK] Massinger Picture I ii: The night-trader I’ the streete, with certaine danger to the pocket.
at trader, n.
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