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Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies choose

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[UK] T. Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness in Sturgess Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies (1969) 193: Dance all their country measures, rounds, and jigs, / What shall we do? Hark, they are all on the hoigh [sic].
at high, adj.1
[UK] T. Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness in Sturgess Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies (1969) 244: Now you talk of a cat, Sisly, I smell a rat.
at smell a rat (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] T. Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness in Sturgess Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies (1969) 241: I’ll make him drunk if he be a Trojan.
at Trojan, n.
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