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The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine choose

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[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 21: This Angell is not noted by her winges / But by her tayle, all full of prickes and stinges.
at angel, n.
[UK] S. Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood Satyr 4 n.p.: Tut cloth-breech doth deride him with a laffe, / And lets him see Bone-baster, that’s his staffe.
at bone-baster (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 15: When she his Flaske and Touch-boxe set on fyer, And till this hower the burning is not out.
at touch-box, n.
[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 15: This Gentleman hath serued long in Fraunce, And is returned filthy full of French.
at French, n.
[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 22: Gallus will haue no Barbour prune his beard [...] How comes he trymmed, you may aske me than? His Wenches do it with their warming-pan.
at warming pan, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 21: This Angell [a prostitute] is not noted by her winges, But by her tayle, all full of prickes and stinges.
at tail, n.
[UK] Rowlands Letting of Humours Blood 76: We gaue the Brewers Diet-drinke a wipe.
at wipe, n.
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