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A Mad World, My Masters choose

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[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) II iv: Here, bully-Captaine.
at bully, adj.1
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) I i: lieft.: Captaine, Regent, Principall. ant.: What shall I call thee? The Noble spark of bounty.
at captain, n.
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) III ii: Ha, ha, I have fitted her; An old Knight and a cocke a’ th’ game still, I have not spurs for nothing.
at cock of the game (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) I ii: Let me not be purloind, purloind indeed; the merry Greekes conceive me.
at Greek, n.
[UK] Middleton Mad World I ii: There’s a gem I would not lose, Kept by th’ Italian under lock and key: We Englishmen are careless creatures.
at Italian padlock (n.) under Italian, adj.
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) I ii: That villanous ring-worme, womans worst requitall; ’Tis onley lechery that’s damb’d t’th pit-hole.
at pit-hole (n.) under pit, n.
[UK] Middleton Mad World II i: Most welcome, good Sir Andrew Polecat.
at polecat, n.
[UK] Middleton Mad World The Persons: Master Shortrod Harebrain, a jealous husband.
at rod, n.
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) III ii: An itching scab, that is your harlot; a sore scab, your Usurer [...] but a white scab, that’s a scald knave and a Pander.
at scald, adj.
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) I ii: Let me not be purloind, purloind indeed; the merry Greekes conceive me: there is a gem I would not loose, Kept by the Italian under lock and key].
at Spanish padlock (n.) under Spanish, adj.
[UK] Middleton Mad World (1640) III i: Fooles then are maides to locke from men that treasure, Which death will plucke, and never yeeld ’em pleasure.
at treasure, n.2
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