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Lady of Pleasure choose

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[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure II i: Buy a beaver for thy own block.
at block, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure V i: We could not get a lay, A tumbler, a device, a bona roba, For any money.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure V i: Gay men have a privilege in rudeness.
at gay, adj.
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure V i: We could not get a lay, A tumbler, a device, a bona roba, For any money.
at lay, n.2
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure IV i: One word, Mother; have not you been a cat in your days?
at mother, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure III i: Which is less servile, to bring up the pheasant, And wait, or sit at table uncontroll’d, And carve to my own appetite?
at pheasant, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure IV i: I hope she has another customer / To do the trick withal.
at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure IV ii: I am promis’d a convenient whiskin, [...]That has read all Sir Pandarus workes.
at whiskin, n.
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