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Life and Death of Tom Thumb choose

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[UK] Fielding Tom Thumb III i: Were he my Husband, his Horns should be as long as his Body.
at horn, n.1
[UK] Fielding Tom Thumb I iii: Ireland her O’s, her Mac’s let Scotland boast .
at Mac, n.1
[UK] Fielding Tom Thumb II i: Were he [...] a Bully, A Highway-man, or Prize-fighter, I’d nab him.
at nab, v.1
[UK] Fielding Tom Thumb I v: When in a Pudding, by his Mother put, The Bastard, by a Tinker, on a Stile Was drop’d [...] can I bear To see him, from a Pudding, mount the Throne?
at pudding, n.
[UK] Fielding Tom Thumb Epilogue: I may prove, in time, a thumping Sinner.
at thumping, adj.
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