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A Strappado for the Diuell choose

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[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 152: [title] Satyre called the Coniborrowe [...] Lasciuious Burrowes, where there nothing are But toused, sullied, and ore iaded ware.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 155: Till then adew: for till that time I sweare it, / Thy Connie-burrow is not for my Ferret.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 81: [Many maids] when shamefull dance is done . . . wish they had begun Many yeeres before.
at dance, n.1
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 152: Akes in the ioynts, and ring-worme in the face, Cramps in the nerues, fire in the priuy place.
at fire, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 165: Come then my lad of mettall make resort, Vnto the throne of loue thy Betties fort. There plant thy Cannon siedge her round about. Be sure (my Boy) she cannot long hold out. Erect thy standard, let her tender brest, Be thy pauillion.
at fort, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 44: [Venus] pictur’d as sh’d beene Taking a greene-gowne ... of Mars.
at get a green gown (v.) under green gown, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 40: A civill matron, lisping with forsooth, / As one that had not heart to sweare an oath, / In Crave attire, French hood, all Frenchefide, / For she had some-thing more of French beside, / Her outward rayment in a loose-gowne made.
at loose-bodied gown (n.) under loose, adj.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 48: A wanton Meremayd, that does sing, To bring youths crazie backe to ruining.
at mermaid, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 151: A cage of vncleane birds, which is possest Of none saue such as will defile their nest.
at nest, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 122: She mop’d, he pop’d: his popping could not get her.
at pop, v.1
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 165: Play that stroake still, theres none that here can let thee, For non there is can better please thy Bettie.
at stroke, n.1
[UK] R. Brathwait Strappado 154: Upon a Poet’s Palfrey lying in lavender, for the discharge of his Provender .
at lay (up) in lavender, v.
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