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Holland’s Leaguer choose

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[UK] S. Marmion Holland’s Leaguer IV ii: Hast thou e’er a morsel That is not tainted or fly blown?
at fly-blown, adj.
[UK] S. Marmion Holland’s Leaguer IV v: Can’t a man have the venerable gout, Or the bone-ache, but you must imitate him?
at bone-ache (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] S. Marmion Holland’s Leaguer IV iii: You are an apple-squire, a rat, and a ferret. I saw you bolt out from that coney-berry.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Holland’s Leaguer IV ii: I have the grincums in my back, crincums, grincomes I fear Will spoil my courtship.
at crinkum, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Holland’s Leaguer I iv: Their [women’s] unjust desires would ask the labours of some ten stallions.
at stallion, n.
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