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Phoenix choose

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[UK] Middleton Phoenix I ii: You think, as most of your insatiate widows, That captains can do wonders; when, alas, The name does often prove the better man.
at captain, n.
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I iv: cap.: Away sail I, fare thee well. tang.: A lusty crack of wind go with thee.
at crack, n.1
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I ii: Would my father had held a plow so and fed upon squeezed curds and onions, that I might have bathed in sensuality.
at curds, n.
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I viii: He’s a gull, he ventures with me; some filthy farmer’s son. The father’s a Jew, and the son a gentleman: faugh!
at Jew, n.
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I ii: Would my father had held a plow so and fed upon squeezed curds and onions, that I might have bathed in sensuality.
at plough, n.
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I ii: What a fortunate elder brother is he, whose father being a rammish plowman, himself a perfumed gentleman, spending [...] the sweat of his father’s body in monthly physic for his pretty queasy harlot.
at rammish (adj.) under ram, n.1
[UK] Middleton Phoenix I vi: He had so much grace before he died to turn his white money into gold, a great ease to his executor.
at white money (n.) under white, adj.
[UK] Phoenix (Sacramento) 4 Oct. 1: Which one of the handsome ‘ducks’ is it, that has sent his wife to the Atlantic side?
at duck, n.1
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