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[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 180: Her Guests and Gamesters do so ply her Box.
at box, n.1
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 297: Your Waste is shamefull then, sith it to hide, Your English Bummes are still so Frenchifide.
at Frenchified, adj.
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 144: [He] locks vp his wife, as is the guize Of the Italian; and, cloth put a Lock Vpon her Iewell; ... But his Mans Key still ... opes the Lock to gage his Masters Iewel.
at Italian padlock (n.) under Italian, adj.
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 53: My Key can open, but not shut the Lock: Sith tis a Spring; and Kayes in generall Will doo’t.
at key, n.1
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam Epigram 13: [A] base Whorehunter [who] with Flesh ... changed friendly knocks; And so, to shun the Plague, dyde of the Pox.
at knock, n.1
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 25: One Master Linder, that was burnt by a Drab and thereof dyed [...] Had he not linde her, Hee had not layne heere.
at line, v.1
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 215: [The] pleasure’s [i.e. of sex] but a moment ... And ... it wasts the Marrow.
at marrow, n.
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 187: Of Flauias paynting; and playing the Squirell [...] she goes (like a Countess) in her Vaile; So, (Squirrell-like) she’s couer’d with her Taile.
at squirrel, n.
[UK] Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 239: Thy Wife plaies false ... With thee at Tick-tack.
at tick-tack, n.1
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