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The Provoked Wife choose

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[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife II i: lady f.: At what rate would this indifference be brought off? heart.: Why, madam, to drive a quaker’s bargain.
at Quaker’s bargain, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife IV i: lord r.: Is the dog dead? col.: No, d--n him ! I heard him wheeze.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife III ii: Then sit ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we’re not very fou, but we’re gayly yet.
at fou, adj.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife III ii: Then up with Alley, quoth Crumma, we’s get a roaring fou.
at roaring fou, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V iii: That goat there, that stallion there, is ready to whip me through the guts.
at goat, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife IV iii: I heard Mr Constable say he believed she was little better than a mophrodite.
at morphodite, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife II i: A woman’s tongue a cure for the spleen! Oons!
at oons!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife IV vi: Now, you being as dirty and as nasty as myself, we may go pig together.
at pig together (v.) under pig, v.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V iii: Pretending the Corn was sow’d in the Ground, before ever the Plough had been in the Field.
at plough, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife I i: The surly puppy! Yet, he’s a fool for it.
at puppy, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife IV iii: I hope your punks will give you sauce to your mutton.
at sauce, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife I i: Would my courage came up to a fourth part of my ill-nature, I’d stand buff to her relations, and thrust her out of doors.
at stand buff (v.) under stand, v.2
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife III i: Here, take away the things; I expect company.
at things, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V i: My innocent lady, to wriggle herself out at the back door of the business, turns marriage bawd to her niece, and resolves to deliver up her fair body to be tumbled and mumbled by that young liqourish whipster.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V i: My pretty Poll, my gold finch, my little water-wagtail [...] Come, kiss me again.
at wagtail, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V i: My innocent lady, to wriggle herself out at the back door of the business, turns marriage bawd to her niece, and resolves to deliver up her fair body to be tumbled and mumbled by that young liqourish whipster.
at whipster, n.
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