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The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring choose

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[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 38: Many brave Gentlemen Ruined by Cramming their Gimblets, into so Insatiate an Augre-Hole.
at auger, n.
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 8: [She] takes lodgings in Salisbury Court, and sets up the old Trade of Basket-making.
at basket-making (n.) under basket, n.1
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 9: [She] begins to smell a butter’d Bun preparing for her Master’s Supper.
at buttered bun, n.1
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 28: [Drinking] a Pint of Prickt Claret at some Hedge Tavern ... whilst the Young Spark at home is purchasing a Bit of Tripe to feed his Hungry Cat withal.
at cat, n.2
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing n.p.: Close Kisses, kind Embraces and all the Delights of Caterwoiling are put in practice.
at caterwaul, v.
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 29: For a Guinea or two [he] takes immediate Possession of her Copyhold ‘Pretty Kate of Windsor’.
at copyhold, n.
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 29: [She pleases her client] with her various Motions and Activity, that his Breech Dances, Capers and Firks it in as good Time as if she had a Fidle in her Commodity.
at fiddle, n.1
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 14: The Amorous prevailing Glances of our Town Ladies ... Animates the Vigour, and melts down the Modesty of our Young Country Esquire.
at lady about town (n.) under lady, n.
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 47: [Pox] in Pleasures Nest ... Keeps many Virtuous, who would fain be Lewd.
at nest, n.
[UK] Comforts of Whoreing 10: A Vessel of Delight fit for the Butler’s Broaching, who claps in his Spigot, and so tickles her Firkin.
at spigot, n.
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