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The False One choose

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[UK] Fletcher False One III ii: I scorn to nourish it with such bloody purchase. / Purchase so foully got.
at purchase, n.
[UK] Fletcher False One III ii: A womans warriour [...] Studies her fortifications, and her breaches, And how he may advance his ram to batter the Bullwork of her chastitie.
at ram, n.1
[UK] Fletcher False One I i: ’Tis a catalogue / Of all the gamesters in the court and city, / Which lord lies with that lady, and what gallant / Sports with that merchant’s wife [N].
at sport, v.
[UK] Fletcher False One II iii: And she would be cool’d, Sir, let the Souldiers trim her.
at trim, v.
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