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The Changeling choose

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[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I ii: Ay, play at push-pin, cousin, ha, ha!
at play at push-pin (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling V iii: I coupled with your mate At barley-break; now we are left in hell.
at barley-break, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I i: Yonder’s another vessel, I’ll board her, If she be lawful prize, down goes her top-sail.
at board, v.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I i: Poppy is one simple indeed, and cuckoo what-you-call’t another.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I ii: Cat-whore, cat-whore, her permasant!
at cat, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I ii: The devil put the rope about her crag.
at crag, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling III iv: I have eas’d you Of your trouble, think on’t, I am in pain, And must be eas’d of you.
at ease, v.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I i: He’s hot preparing for this day of triumph. Thou must be a bride within this sevennight.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I i: She had rather wear my pelt tann’d in a pair Of dancing pumps [...] I know she hates me.
at pelt, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I ii: At eight walk, thats leg-hour, at nine gather flowers and pluck a rose.
at pluck a rose (v.) under pluck, v.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley The Changeling I i: Poppy? I’ll give thee a pop i’th lips for that first, and begin there: (kisses her).
at pop, n.1
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