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The Grand Mystery or Art of Meditating over an House of Office, restor’d and unveil’d choose

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[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office 8: Others [...] will regard it only as a piece of Banter; having, perhaps, never before, heard of Soothsaying in a Boghouse.
at boghouse, n.
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office 11: Nurses shall read Lectures upon Shitten Clouts.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office cover: Proposals at large for establishing a corporation for erecting 500 publick offices of ease.
at house of easement (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office 3: He must know why my Lady Squitter does nothing but Water, while Country Jug leaves something at the bottom of a Hay Stack as hard as a Stone.
at jug, n.1
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office 7: Had he commanded the whole Roman Senate to sh-t before him.
at shit, v.
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office 2: There is nothing the Vulgar betray their Ignorance and the wrong Conceptions they entertain of things more in, when they bid a Person, whom they would show their disesteem of, Go Shite.
at go shit (v.) under shit, v.
[UK] Art of Meditating over an House of Office v: The Transformation of a Pudding into a T--d.
at turd, n.
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