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The Fair Quaker of Deal choose

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[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal I i: wor.: Oh Beastly! We at Sea always Smoak when we Drink, and that would spoil all the gay furniture. miz.: Oh wretched! [...] rov.: What is your conversation? miz.: We imitates the ladies as near as we can.
at beastly, adj.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal III ii: I’d have you take care who you ravish; for a great many Women in this Town don’t love to be boarded by Force.
at board, v.1
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal II iii: Come, her Majesties Health in a Bumper, and may she live for ever.
at bumper, n.2
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal II i: There’s many a lad in the Navy gets a Clap before the Ships Moor’d.
at clap, n.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal III ii: I’d have you take care who you ravish [...] you may fire a great many Guns betwixt Wind and Water before you can make any one of them leaky.
at fire, v.2
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal III ii: I’d have you take care who you ravish [...] I don’t care to attack a Fireship.
at fireship, n.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal I i: He sets with as good a Bucket of Flip before him as e’re was toss’d up betwixt the Stem and Stern of a Ship.
at flip, n.1
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal I i: Our Rogue of a loblolly Doctor, being not satisfied with his twopences, must have a Note for ten months pay for every Cure.
at loblolly, n.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal II i: I am in a very Maggotty Humour.
at maggoty, adj.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal IV i: I’ll take the freedom of sending for our noble Commadore and his Lady too, who are by this time noosed.
at noose, v.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal II i: I could wish a Punk of my Noble Captain’s was well pepper’d with it.
at peppered, adj.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal V ii: Look you, Sir, the Wench I have taken is a plain Country Pinnace.
at pinnace, n.
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal II i: First let’s have a Sneaker of Punch.
at sneaker, n.1
[Ire] C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal I i: If the Government did but know what a Swabb thou art, I should be knighted for cutting thy Throat.
at swab, n.
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