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The Fair Example, or, The Modish Citizens choose

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[UK] J. Shirley Example II ii: All the ladies you can wish for, / Humble and suppliant for the game.
at game, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III iii: Adad, I think this Wine makes my Head a little giddy.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III ii: Blood and Thunder! I’ll broil ye, you Limb of Satan.
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example V ii: My Wife is an Angel, this Gentleman, a Man of Honour – and I am no Cuckold, old Boy – that’s all.
at old boy, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example II ii: Hussy, you lie; get you out of my Sight, or I’ll brain ye, you rebellious Crocodile.
at brain, v.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III iii: whims.: To the pretty’st Woman in Cheapside. sym.: Done, a Brimmer, that’s my Mistress.
at brimmer, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III iii: boy.: A Candle, Sir! ’tis broad Daylight yet. whims.: What then, you little Dandyprat? If we have a mind to a Candle we will have a Candle.
at dandiprat, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: I won’t be a Cuckold [...] I’m not for Cuckoldom.
at -dom, sfx
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: Madam, Scandal is the very Pam in Conversation [...] If you have but Stock enough to pay your Club in that, you may keep Company with the highest Flyer.
at high-flyer, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: Ne’er stir abroad unless of a Sunday Morning to the Meeting, with a huge overgrown Prentice, and a two-handed Bible at my Heels.
at two-handed, adj.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example V i: I know there’s some Business a-foot by this Hedge-bird’s cackling.
at hedge-bird (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example II i: D’ye hear how she answers me, Sir? Of Age! Why how old do you think I am, Mrs. Pert? [Ibid.] III ii: Do I so, Mrs Nimblechaps!
at Miss, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: Ah! ’tis Nuts to you, and you always think that a thick Shell has the Sweetest Kernel.
at nuts, n.1
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: Madam, Scandal is the very Pam in Conversation, and you shou’d always lead it about for the good of the Board.
at pam, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III i: Pho! Pox!
at pox!, excl.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example III ii: Tittee, tattee! ’Sbud she’s a rare Bed-fellow!
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example V ii: Then art thou Stone-blind? Had’st thou never any Eyes?
at stone, adv.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example I i: She’s a Strapper, and I’m a Pigmy.
at strapper, n.
[UK] R. Estcourt Fair Example II ii: I’ll lock up my Money; and so let her e’en play upon Tick if she will.
at on tick under tick, n.3
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