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The Female Fire-Ships choose

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[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-Ships n.p.: Think not that any sad Mishap, Of Swelling Groin or Weeping Clap, Or Bubo, or venereous Shanker, Occasion’d this Poetick Anger.
at bube, n.
[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-ships 14: What Man’s a Stranger to the fam’d Report, / Of the Religious Nuns of Sals’bury Court? / Who daily standing at their Convent Door, / And plying, seem to cry, next Whore, next Whore.
at convent, n.
[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-ships 10: For When he lay intranc’d in Celia’s Lap, / He little thought ’twould terminate in Clap.
at lap, n.1
[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-ships 14: What Man’s a Stranger to the fam’d Report, / Of the Religious Nuns of Sals’bury Court? / Who daily standing at their Convent Door, / And plying, seem to cry, next Whore, next Whore.
at nun, n.
[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-Ships 13: [They] bear a dozen Leaps a Night, ... Till tir’d with Shaking of their worn-out Bums, Through Allies reel, to their respective Homes.
at shake, v.
[UK] R. Ames Female Fire-Ships Act II: Lewd Smock-Vermin.
at smock vermin (n.) under smock, n.1
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