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A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vext choose

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[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 62: ste.: Now, Sir, what makes you here so neere the prison? rob.: I was going, Sir, to buy meate for a poore bird I have, That sits so sadly in the Cage of late. [...] ste.: I shall finde that bird I thinke to be that churlish Wretch, your father, that now has taken Shelter here in Ludgate.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 18: iack: Two Quarters and a Tray. step: I hope we shall have good cheere, when two Caters, and a Tray goe toth’ market.
at cater-trey, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 63: Your husband threatened to arrest us; my Shoulders love no such clapping.
at clap on the shoulder (n.) under clap, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 53: Master Alderman, these two crackt Gallants Are in severall bonds to my predecessor For a debt of full two thousand pounds apiece.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext I i: Mistake me not, kindheart. He calls you tooth-drawer.
at kindheart, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 7: Each Festivall day I’ll come unto thy house, And I will pisse upon thy threshold.
at piss on, v.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 38: I requested him to pull me A Catherine Peare, and had not I lookt to him He would have mistooke and given me a Popperin.
at poperin pear, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 59: [We shall] run at the ring of your setting-up, and you must tell us who deserves most favour.
at running at the ring (n.) under ring, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman Never Vext 9: You give away the sword, and must defend Your selfe with the scabbard.
at scabbard, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 26: Alas poore Shagragge, My Mistris does but gull him.
at shagrag, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 63: Zoundes Knight, if the Major come The shoulder clappers are not farre off.
at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 9: You give away the sword, and must defend Your selfe with the scabbard.
at sword, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 27: S’foote, is’t come to this? [...] My Mistris, and honest, Hansome, plaine-dealing, serving-Creature; and she to Marry a Worson Tittere Tu Tattere.
at tittery-tu, n.
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 18: iack: Two Quarters and a Tray. step.: I hope we shall have good cheere, when two Caters, and a Tray goe toth’ market.
at tray, n.1
[UK] Rowley Woman never Vext 9: The pricks, take heed of the wands, you Cannot have the pricks without the wands.
at wand, n.
[UK] Wonder Woman 10 Feb. [CBS-TV] Violet used to be our number-one hit lady.
at hit woman (n.) under hit, n.
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