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The Innocent Mistress choose

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[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress IV ii: Do you take me for a cully, spawn of Hell? Have I known this damned town so long at last to be catched with such gross banter?
at banter, n.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I i: He [...] instead of making his life easy with jolly bonarobas, dotes on a platonic mistress.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I i: His lady and a booby brother of hers have got my mistress in their power.
at booby, adj.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress IV v: I warrant ye, and shan’t we have such lusty treats, old boy?
at old boy, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress II iii: Yet if you’ll be kind, my dear chicken, they shall wait for me in vain.
at chicken, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I i: Then if a foolish cit does not take compassion, [...] dies an old maid, despised and forgotten.
at cit, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress III iv: I know not why she should [...] set her eternal clack a-running upon all my actions.
at clack, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I ii: He looks a surly, old, rich cuff.
at cuff, n.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress III iv: What a dickens ails me?
at what the dickens...?, phr.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress V iv: Hang him, rogue. He’s smock-faced, and handsome.
at smock-faced, adj.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I iv: Gadzooks! This Counsellor Cobblecase has talked law and drank claret with me ’till my brains are turned topsy-turvy.
at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I ii: Hang her. I hinted love but once, and she has abused me ever since.
at hang, v.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress III ii: Hang it, ’tis but one ridiculous thing, I’m resolved to do it.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress IV ii: Who was that imposter that told me my friend Mr Beaumont was taken up for a Jacobite, and the mob was pulling him to pieces?
at mob, n.2
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress V iii: Ay, my own mother to save myself. I say we’ll peach.
at peach, v.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress II iii: I suppose you have vanity enough to think your well-rigged pinnace worth securing.
at pinnace, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress III ii: Ye lie, ye damned quean, he is here, ha, and his minion with him. Let me come at her!
at quean, n.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress I ii: Stuff, pshaw!
at stuff!, excl.
[UK] M. Pix Innocent Mistress III iv: Though, udsbores, I know not why she should.
at ud, n.
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