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The Inconstant Ladie choose

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[UK] A. Wilson Inconstant Ladie IV ii: I do not like that skirtfoist. Leave your bouncing!
at bounce, v.1
[UK] A. Wilson Inconstant Ladie IV ii: I do not like that skirtfoist. Leave your bouncing!
at skirt-foist (n.) under foist, n.2
[UK] A. Wilson Inconstant Ladie I i: ’Tis the best posture For your lip-mongers, that are all meere out side, Whose tongues do wander so far from the hart.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] A. Wilson Inconstant Ladie IV i: Farewell, good sheepe’s-heads!
at sheep’s head (n.) under sheep, n.
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