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discourse, of marriage and vviuing : and of the greatest mystery therein contained: how to choose a good wife from a bad choose

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[UK] in A. Niccholes Discourse of Marriage and Wiving B4: There’s some whose prostituted beauty walkes, Like Ganimeds or girle-boyes.
at girl-boy (n.) under girl, n.1
[UK] in A. Niccholes Discourse of Marriage and Wiving 30: He that so old seekes for a nurse so yong, shall haue pap with a Hatchet for his comfort.
at pap with a hatchet (n.) under pap, n.3
[UK] in A. Niccholes Discourse of Marriage and Wiving B2: He doth want his Rib that wants his Wife.
at rib, n.1
[UK] in A. Niccholes Discourse of Marriage and Wiving 37: I have a wife my selfe, I tell you true, / Yet in the old kind seekes for pleasures new: / Taking not now delight that I haue tooke, / To shake the Tree that I so oft haue shooke.
at shake the tree (v.) under shake, v.
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