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Miseries of an Enforced Marriage choose

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[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: Not a Scots baubee (by this hand) to bless us with.
at baubee, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: While you did keep house, we had some belly timber at your table.
at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Wenches, bona robas, blessed beauties.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: In troth, sister, we two to beg in the fields, / And you to betake yourself of the old trade, / Filling of small cans in the suburbs.
at can, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act VI: But cargo! my fiddlestick cannot play without rosin.
at cargo!, excl.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act V: I am gulled, by this hand. An old coney-catcher, and beguiled!
at cony-catcher, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act II: ’Sfoot, you chittiface.
at chitty-face, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act V: True, chuck, I am thy haven.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Look ye, go not to your gills, your punks, and your cock-tricks with it.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Did they not bind your worship’s knighthood by the thumbs? then faggoted you and the fool your man back to back.
at faggot, v.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Good! I have met my flesh-hooks together.
at flesh hooks (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: Here’s the pure and neat grape, gentlemen.
at grape, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act V: Prove it upon him, even in his blood, his bones, / His guts, his maw, his throat, his entrails.
at gut, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act I: ilf.: Hast not thou been a whoremaster? har.: In youth I swill’d my fill at Venus’ cup.
at Venus’s highway, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Mine are precious cabinets, and must have precious jewels put into them, and I know you to be merchants of stock-fish, dry-meat, and not men for my market.
at jewel, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Look ye, go not to your gills, your punks, and your cock-tricks with it.
at jill, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: I would not go up the ladder twice for anything.
at go up the ladder (to bed) (v.) under ladder, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: They nibble long, at last they get a clap.
at nibble, v.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act V: Die a dog’s death, be perch’d upon a tree; / Hang’d betwixt heaven and earth.
at perch, v.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act V: Thou art my sweet rogue, my lamb, my pigsny.
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act II: Now let me number how many rooks I have half-undone already this term by the first return: four by dice, six by being bound with me, and ten by queans: of which some be courtiers, some country gentlemen, and some citizens’ sons.
at rook, n.1
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Though I ’scaped by the nut-tree, be sure you’ll speed by the rope.
at rope, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act III: In troth, sister, we two to beg in the fields, / And you to betake yourself of the old trade, / Filling of small cans in the suburbs.
at trade, n.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: For I, knowing you all three to be covetous tug-muffins, will not trust you with the sight of each other’s beauty.
at tug-mutton (n.) under tug, v.
[UK] G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Widgeons, widgeons: a couple of gulls!
at widgeon, n.
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