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Your Five Gallants choose

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[UK] Middleton Your Five Gallants II iii: Here’s Mistresse Rose-noble has lost her maiden-head, crackt in the Ring; She’s good enough for gaimsters, and to passe from man to man: for gold presents at Dice your harlot, in one houre wone and lost thrice, euery man has a fling at her.
at cracked in the ring (adj.) under cracked, adj.
[UK] Middleton Your Five Gallants III ii: Screene me a little you whorson old crosse biter.
at crossbiter, n.
[UK] Middleton Your Five Gallants I i: As in one pie twenty may dip their sippits, so vpon one woman forty may consume their pattrimonies.
at pie, n.
[UK] Middleton Your Five Gallants II i: courtesan: Sir, our pimp’s growne proud.
at pimp, n.
[UK] Middleton Your Five Gallants III ii: Why was not I as often haunted with two tras and a quarter.
at tray, n.1
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