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No Wit or Help like a Womans choose

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[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I ii: This Bird’s my own.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I i: sir oliv.: I hope to be a Grand-father yet be ’em. sav.: That may you Sir, to marry a chopping Gill with a plump Buttock.
at chopping, adj.
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) II i: They have no reason to have a Lock but the Master must have a Key to.
at lock, n.1
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) [Dramatis personae] Master Low-Water, a decayed gentleman. I ii: Mistress Low-water [...] I’ll empty your enemies Bags to maintain you; for the rich Widow, the Lady Golden-fleece, [...] I am perfectly assured, the next meeting strikes a bargain. [...] Her wealth shall rise from her, and set in thee. mistress low-water: You men have th’art to overcome poor women.
at low tide (n.) under low, adj.
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I i: A chopping Gill with a plump Buttock, Will hoist a Fartingal at five years old, And call a man between eleven and twelve To take part of a piece of Mutton with her.
at mutton, n.
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I ii: The Widow’s Notch shall lie open to you.
at notch, n.1
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) II i: If conceit will strike this stroke, have at the Widows Plum-tree.
at plum tree, n.
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I i: Y’are in a Quagmire both; should I release you now, Your wits would both come home in a stinking pickle.
at stinking, adj.1
[UK] Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) IV i: The Mother of her was a good twigger the whilst.
at twigger, n.
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