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A Cure for a Cuckold choose

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[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold IV i: A Tweak, or Bronstrops – I learnt that name in a Play.
at bronstrops, n.
[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold I i: Your Boy grows up, and ’tis a chopping lad [...] one of the forward’st infants!
at chopping, adj.
[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold IV i : [He] had, belike, some private dealings with her, and there got a goose.
at Winchester goose, n.
[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold III ii: If I be horn-mad, what’s that to you?
at what’s it to you?, phr.
[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold III ii: What tho your husband lent my wife your distaff, shall not the yarn be mine? He have the head, let him carry the spindle home agen.
at spindle, n.1
[UK] Webster Cure for a Cuckold IV i: This informer comes into Turnbull Street, to a victualling house, and there falls in league with a wench.
at victualler, n.
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