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The Virgin Widow choose

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[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow V i: A rude company of cock-brain’d Rascals in a humor beset her house.
at cock-brain (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow V i: Bring them hither a Thursday morning, by break a day, and wee ’l dispatch the businesse before Crow pisse.
at crow’s piss (n.) under crow, n.2
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow IV i: Greaze my fist with a Tester or two, and ye shall find it in your penny-worths.
at grease someone in the fist (v.) under grease, v.1
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow V i: And now Museus may goe hang himselfe.
at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow II i: Oyle thy tongue, that it may neatly cosen / Poor Country-fools.
at oil, v.
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow II i: Cornelius Quack, lately Pothecary to Artesio, who is about to get a License to be a Mountebank.
at quack, n.1
[UK] F. Quarles Virgin Widow V i: A halter stretch ye.
at stretch, v.
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