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Witty Fair One choose

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[UK] J. Shirley Witty Fair One IV iv: I am untrussing as fast as I can [...] have at your bacon.
at bacon, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Witty Fair One III iv: Hang fevers! let’s to the tavern, and inflame ourselves with lusty wine, suck in the spirit of sack, till we be delphic, and prophesy, my bully-rooke.
at bully-rock (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] J. Shirley Witty Fair One II ii: I smell powder... this peter-gunner should have given fire [F&H].
at peter gunner, n.
[UK] J. Shirley Witty Fair One IV ii: Here is twenty pieces, you shall fribble them away at The Exchange presently.
at piece, n.
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