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Almonds for parrots : or, a soft answer to a scurrilous satyr, call'd, St. James's Park choose

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[UK] J. Browne Almonds for Parrots 5: Achilles Armour cannot match with thine.
at armour, n.
[UK] J. Browne Almonds for Parrots C: Puddy shall live immortal in my Verse, And Condons shall adorn her moving Herse.
at puddy, n.
[UK] J. Browne Almonds for Parrots 12: The Nymph was nothing more Than an old batter’d Hag, or rammy Wh---.
at rammish (adj.) under ram, n.1
[UK] J. Browne Almonds for Parrots B: He’s not the only He That, dress’d in Petty-coats, would make a beauteous She. [...] They speak themselves meer Woman ev’ry Word; [...] Thus pretty S-d--y reigns among the Fair, And passes for the bright Idalian [sic] Star. The Men are apt to take him for a She, And pay false Homage to the Deity. ’Tis pity Nature so mistook her Way, To make at once both sexes go astray, That when she did the Masculine create, He should turn Tail, and prove effeminate.
at she, n.
[UK] J. Browne Almonds for Parrots A2: Labour’d Nonsense only can be found, By studious Sophs, in Calf and Sheep Skin bound.
at soph, n.
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