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[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) IV i: Let’s leaue the mad Ape.
at ape, n.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) V i: Arrested? [...] He is not worth your pitty, nor my anger. Goe to the basket, and repent.
at go to the basket (v.) under basket, n.1
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) IV i: romont: D’ee take me for A fidler? y’are deceiu’d: looke. Ile pay you. (Kickes ’em). page: It seemes he knows you one, he bumfiddles you so. liladam: Was there euer so base a fellow?
at bum fiddle, v.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: I will rather choose a Spittle sinner Carted an age before, though three parts rotten.
at cart, v.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: You did not see ’em on my Couch within, Like George-a-horsebacke, on her, nor a-bed?
at St George, n.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: I desire not You should grow horne-mad, till you haue a wife.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: He toil’d to climb vp to the Phoenix nest, And in his prints leaves your ascent more easie.
at phoenix nest, n.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) IV i: Pox! thou hast burnt me.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: S’death will you suffer this?
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry V i: S’lid, I will put him to’t.
at ’slid!, excl.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: I will rather choose a Spittle sinner Carted an age before, though three parts rotten.
at Spital whore, n.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) III i: Do you come from the Campe, which affords onely The conuersation of cast suburbe whores.
at suburb (wench) (n.) under suburb, n.
[UK] Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry (1632) II ii: Vd’s-light, enjoy your wishes.
at ud, n.
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