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The Tragedy of the Duchess of Malfi choose

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[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi V ii: I’ll crawl after like a sheep-biter.
at sheep-biter (n.) under bite, v.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II ii: ’Twas credibly reported by one o’ the blackguard.
at blackguard, n.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi IV i: Damn her!
at damn, v.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II i: ’Tis a pretty Art, this grafting.
at graft, v.1
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II ii: There was a young waiting-woman, had a monstrous desire to see the glass-house [...] And it was only to know what strange instrument it was, should swell up a glass to the fashion of a woman’s belly.
at instrument, n.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II v: Till I know who leaps my sister, I’ll not stir .
at leap, v.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II iv: ’Twas just like one That hath a little fingring on the Lute, Yet cannot tune it.
at lute, n.1
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II i: If you hear the common people curse you, be sure you are taken for one of the prime night-caps.
at nightcap, n.1
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi II ii: There was taken even now a Switzer in the duchess’ bed-chamber [...] with a pistol in his great cod-piece.
at pistol, n.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi IV ii: A snuffling knave, that while he shows the tombs, will have his hand in a wench’s placket.
at placket, n.
[UK] Webster Duchess of Malfi V ii: I am like one That is condemn’d; I have my pardon promis’d, But I would see it seal’d.
at seal, v.
[UK] A. Boyd Duchess 1 196: Some fool has been telling Pierre that this Monsieur Goddam has a master-cook who ruffles it in velvet and satin.
at Goddam, n.
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