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A Fair Quarrel choose

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[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: That name was never thine, But apple-squire and pander.
at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV i: I say thy sister is a bronstrops. [Ibid.] IV iv: Mayst thou first serve out thy time as a tweak, and then become a bronstrops.
at bronstrops, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: The bulchins will use the Irish captain with respect.
at bulchin, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: Old flatcaps or young heirs.
at flat-cap, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel III ii: physician.: Pray you mistake me not; indeed I love you. jane.: Indeed? What deed? physician.: The deed that you have done.
at do the deed (of darkness) (v.) under deed, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel II ii: I that had face enough to do the deed, Cannot want tongue to speak it.
at face, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel V i: Was this your cunning fetch, To fetch me out of prison, for ever to marry me Unto a strumpet?
at fetch, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel V i: I’d never have her.
at have, v.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: Muffled late night-walkers.
at night walker, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV i: May thy roll rot, and thy pudding drop in pieces, being sophisticated with filthy urine.
at rolling-pin, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV i: [of a syphilitic] It was the burning of his pipe that kill’d him.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel V i: I am a youth, a gentleman, a roarer.
at roarer, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel V i: chouch: (Sings.) I say, thy bride is a bronstrops. trim: (Sings.) And knows the thing that men wear in their slops.
at slops, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel V i: A bastard? ’snails, there’s great suspicion she’s a whore then!
at ’snails!, excl.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: When thou art dead, may twenty whores follow thee, that thou mayst go a squire to thy grave.
at squire, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley Fair Quarrel V i: chouch.: (Sings.) I say, thy bride is a bronstrops. trim.: (Sings.) And knows the thing that men wear in their slops.
at thing, n.
[UK] Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel IV iv: Your tweaks are like your mermaids, they have sweet voices to entice the passengers.
at tweak, n.1
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