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[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit Act I: Custom and Nature make it less offense In women to comitt the deed of pleasure Then men to doubt their chastity.
at do the deed (of darkness) (v.) under deed, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit IV i: Then to bee fox’d it is no crime, Since thickest and dull braines It makes sublime.
at foxed, adj.
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit II ii: One rime more and you undo my love for ever. Out upon’t! pedlars French is a Christian language to this.
at pedlar’s French, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit II ii: His very fingers cryed ‘give me the gold!’ which presumeing to be weight he put in his hocas pocas, a little dormer under his right skirt.
at hocus-pocus, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit III i: He tooke this huffing trade upon him.
at huffing, adj.
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit IV ii: Did you euer doo’t with her.
at it, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit III i: New yeares guifts From soder’d virgins and their shee provintialls Whose warren must be licenc’d from our office.
at provincial, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Captain Underwit Act I: I can teach you to build a sconce, Sir.
at build (up) a sconce (v.) under sconce, n.2
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