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The Welsh Embassador choose

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[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador I i: Hange padlocks best on yor owne lipps, you and Voltimar should you blabb all, this can outface you both.
at blab, v.
[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador II i: I had a raw stomach before, and now tis eas’d hange mee, draw mee, quarter mee, cutt mee, Carbonado mee, this, pish.
at carbonado, v.
[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador II i: He changed you to a stalkinge horse [...] my poore girle Armante niblinge you strangled her, gott her from the Contract hee was ty’d in.
at nibble, v.
[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador I iii: [I am] loath to grubb my Penn wholly in a womans busines.
at pen, n.1
[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador II i: You might putt her away in game, some younge rooke would snap at hir.
at rook, n.1
[UK] Dekker Welsh Embassador IV ii: [as written] clo.: Come in; oh mr macTeage, this may bee cronicled to see you heere. edm.: Sawst thou Reece, datt coggin rascalls? clo.: not I.
at Taig, n.
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