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[UK] J. Johnson Academy of Love 88: The Bag-pipe [...] is a wind instrument, and never playes but when the bag is full.
at bagpipe, n.1
[UK] J. Johnson Academy of Love 99: The young sparkish Girles would read in Shakespeare day and night, so that they would open the Booke or Tome, and the men with a Fescue in their hands should point to the Verse.
at fescue, n.
[UK] J. Johnson Academy of Love 25: [A] ravenous Strumpet, . . . that any one might play upon their virgin string, that harmonious minikin string of her lute, that could but shew his silver pen.
at lute, n.1
[UK] J. Johnson Academy of Love 79: This is, said Cupid, our Fencing Schoole [where] men shall fence against women, who although they chance to make a thrust gainst these weaker vessels, and pierce them at least two handfull deepe, yet the wound is not mortall.
at pushing school, n.
[UK] J. Johnson Academy of Love 101: If the men adventure against the women at tick-tack, they are certaine to lose all they play for, and if the men lose all, then the women desire them to play at Passage amongst themselves.
at tick-tack, n.1
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