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The Honest Man’s Fortune choose

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[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune V i: Single money whores that fed on Carrots.
at carrot, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune I i: Every mother’s son Of all that multitude of hearers went.
at every mother’s son, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune IV i: By gad, I think so!
at gad, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune III iii: Didst thou never hear of one Montague, a prodigal gull, that lives about Paris?
at gull, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune I i: I had but good liquor, for which my guts croak like so many frogs for rain.
at gut, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune II ii: It seems you have been in terrible hot service, captain.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune V iii: Down quickly On your marrow-bones, and thank this lady!
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune II ii: Out upon them, rampallions! I’ll keep myself safe enough out of their fingers.
at rampallian, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune III iii: You know you can shark, though you be out of action.
at shark, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune III iii: ’Twas never a good world since our French lords learned of the Neapolitans to make their pages their bedfellows; it doth more hurt to the suburb ladies.
at suburb (wench) (n.) under suburb, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune V iii: She knows that trindle-tail too well.
at trundle-tail, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Honest Man’s Fortune II iv: Udsprecious, we have lost a brother!
at ud, n.
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