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Pasquil’s Nightcap choose

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[UK] Pasquil’s Night-cap 27: Thou has beene too busy with a man, / And art with child.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 33: Within her furrowes haue there plow’d so manie, That for to reape the crop she knowes not anie?
at furrow, n.
[UK] Pasquil’s Night-cap (1877) 8: Else with her husband company doth keepe, To graft the horns vpon his head more deepe.
at graft, v.1
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 64: Thus is the Woodcocke fall’n into the gin, And in Lobs-pound intangled by a wile.
at lob’s pound, n.
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 65: As if there were no Cuckolds among Clownes; As though your maids were Malkins, and your wiues.
at malkin, n.
[UK] Pasquil’s Night-cap (1877) 30: So long the pitcher home doth water fetch, That by some knocke it broken doth returne: So long the fly doth at the candle cletch, That in conclusion shee her wings doth burne.
at pitcher, n.1
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 33: Within her furrowes haue there plow’d so manie, That for to reape the crop she knowes not anie?
at plough, v.
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 43: That precious Kate with valour I may tumble. [...] Oh peirce her (pretie Cupid) with thy sting, That I may pricke her with another thinge.
at prick, v.1
[UK] Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 26: For what care I? [...] though another man doth vse my purse? If still my candle burne both faire and bright.
at purse, n.
[UK] Pasquil’s Night-cap (1877) 32: Now, Benedicite, her Mother said, And hast thou bene already such a Twigger.
at twigger, n.
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