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[UK] New Atalantis 47: Alternate kissing of the two collateral columns [...] which lead to the blissful altar, veiled from vulgar eyes with the fringe of Venus.
at altar of hymen, n.
[UK] New Atalantis 65: The maypole of love [is] bold and erect like the monument of London.
at maypole, n.
[UK] New Atalantis 105: The three regiments of foot-guards drawn up naked before her, each man his pike in his hand, which they should timely strike in honour of her, as she proceeded thro’ their ranks.
at pike, n.1
[UK] New Atalantis 57: Me believe it [i.e. a penis] be Hercules’s club, it so knock me down.
at club, n.
[UK] New Atalantis Fraxi 111 272: His lordship [is] of a make like Hercules, whose club, or something very like it, he usually carried about him.
at club, n.
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