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Age for Apes choose

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[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 192: In ev’ry Country shop wee have them full. For you must know the Country’s no such Ape But it can City-fashions imitate.
at ape, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 259: I [...] in acquaintance with some Gipsies fell; Whose chiefest Bung and Captain now I am.
at bung, n.1
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 128: If I grant Protection to another To Conicatch, or to defeat his brother, My shallow Sconce is run on no such Shelfe As to neglect Protection for my selfe.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 159: Some Ladies much deform’d of late [...] Which now for modesty I will omit, Because Cornelius-tub produceth it.
at Mother Cornelius’ tub, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 173: Yea in the Academie I observ’d Those Drones enjoy best roomes who least deserv’d.
at drone, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 155: About a May-pole I dare hardly dance, Or give a wench a green-gown on the grasse.
at give someone a green gown (v.) under green gown, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 259: My daintie-Doxie nims away their purse.
at nim, v.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 233: For while these to the Ballad-monger flocked, My nimble Nipps div’d deep into their pocket.
at nip, n.1
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 231: Flankt were my troups with bolts, bands, punks, and panders, Pimps, [...] Prinado’s, highway-standers.
at prinado, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 169: Now and then the City recompenses With a commodity of stale-stuffe wenches.
at stuff, n.
[UK] R. Brathwait Age for Apes 248: Whence he infer’d he was a Titre-tu, An enemy to th’ State: streight to the place He sends his ale-tipt Sergeant with his Mace, To summon the Titterian to appeare.
at tipped, adj.
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