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Choise of Valentines choose

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[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 9: Blushing, she replide, ‘Because I in this dancing school abide?’.
at dancing school, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 6: Now am I entered: ‘Venus be my speede!’ But where’s the female that must do this deed?
at do the deed (of darkness) (v.) under deed, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 13: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
at foin, v.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 5: I com for game, therfore giue me my Jill.
at game, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 5: Thither went I, and bouldlie made enquire If they had hackneis to lett-out to hire.
at hackney, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 12: I kisse, I clap, I feele, I view at will, Yett dead he lyes, not thinking good or ill.
at he, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 22: Sufficeth all I haue, I yeald hir hole Which, for a poore man, is a princlie dole.
at hole, n.1
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 5: I com for game, therfore giue me my Jill.
at jill, n.1
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 4: Where to, the contrie franklins flock-meale swarme, And Jhon [sic] and Jone come marching arme in arme.
at John, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 12: ‘Unhappie me,’ quoth shee, ‘and will’t not stand? Com, lett me rubb and chafe it with my hand!’.
at stand, v.1
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 15: As she prescrib’d, soe kept we crochet-time, And euerie stroake in order lyke a chyme.
at stroke, n.1
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 7: As you desire, so shall you swiue with hir.
at swive, v.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 16: Hould wyde thy lapp, my louelie Danae, And entretaine [sic] this golden showre so free, That trikling falles into thy treasurie.
at treasure, n.2
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 7: Yet soe yt is, I must haue fresher ware; [...] Fetch gentle mistris Francis forth to me.
at ware, n.
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 13: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
at wood, n.1
[UK] Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 12: Perhaps the sillie worme is labour’d sore, And wearied that it can doe noe more.
at worm, n.
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