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[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: salewood: Is she but your underput, Master Lethe? lethe: No more [...] I may grace her with the name of a courtesan, a backslider, a prostitution, or such a toy; but [...] ’tis but a plain pung.
at backslider (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III v: He [...] keeps a drab in town, and, to be free from the interruption of blue beadles and other bawdy oficers, he most politely lodges her in a constable’s house.
at beadle, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term IV i: (Aside) A by-blow for me.
at by-blow, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III v: To be free from the interruption of blue beadles and other bawdy officers.
at bluebottle, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term I ii: Thou art fair and fresh; The gilded flies will light upon thy flesh.
at flesh-fly (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: Who would think now this fine sophisticated squall came out of the bosom of a barn and the loins of a hay-tosser?
at hay-tosser (n.) under hay, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: ’Tis such an Italian world, many men know not before from behind.
at Italian, adj.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term I i: salewood: [She is] like a lute that has all the strings broke, nobody will meddle with her. rearage: Fie, there are doctors enow in town will string her again, and make her sound as sweet as e’er she did.
at lute, n.1
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: (Enter Mother Gruel) sho: How now? What piece of stuff comes here?
at piece of stuff (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term II i: Young, beautiful, and plump, a delicate piece of sin.
at piece of sin (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: salewood: Is she but your underput, Master Lethe? lethe: No more [...] I may grace her with the name of a courtesan, a backslider, a prostitution, or such a toy; but [...] ’tis but a plain pung.
at punk, n.1
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III iv: Where grows this pleasant fruit, says one citizen’s wife in the Row.
at Row, the, n.
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: Who would think now this fine sophisticated squall came out of the bosom of a barn and the loins of a hay-tosser?
at squall, n.1
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term II iii: Methinks it does me most good when I take it standing, I know not how all women’s minds are.
at stand, v.1
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term II iii: I perceive the trout will be a little troublesome ere he be catched – Boy!
at trout, n.1
[UK] Middleton Michaelmas Term III i: salewood: Is she but your underput, Master Lethe? lethe: No more [...] I may grace her with the name of a courtesan, a backslider, a prostitution, or such a toy; but [...] ’tis but a plain pung.
at underput, n.
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