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Man in the Moone choose

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[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone IV iii: Is it not a shame [...] hauing liued so long in Mars his Campe, thou shouldest now bee rockt in Venus Cradle.
at Venus’s highway, n.
[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone IV i: A poxe of all false Prouerbes.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone IV ii: Yes, in a western barge, when, with a good wind and lusty pugs, one may go ten miles in two days.
at pug, n.2
[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone II ii: Away peeuish boy, a rodde were better vnder thy girdle, than loue in thy mouth: it will be a forward Cocke that croweth in the shell.
at rod, n.
[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone IV ii: Pages: What are yee, scabs? Watch: The Watch: this the Constable.
at scab, n.1
[UK] Lyly Man in the Moone III iii: I must hoop my sconce with iron lest my head break.
at sconce, n.1
[UK] Man in the Moone 31: A sepulchre to seafish and others in ponds, moates, and rivers; a sharpe sheep-biter, and a marvellous mutton-monger, a gosbelly glutton.
at mutton-monger, n.2
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