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[UK] W. Bullein Bk of Compoundes fol. 47: Many men, women and children, now a daies, be greuiously bred with a shamefull disease, called the Frenche Pockes. [...] Eschue the cause of this infirmitie, and filthy, rotten, burning of harlottes.
at burn, v.
[UK] W. Bullein Bk of Compoundes fol. 47: Many men, women and children, now a daies, be greuiously bred with a shamefull disease, called the Frenche Pockes.
at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] W. Bullein Bk of Compoundes folio 68: If you haue any sausie loughte, or loitryng lubber within your house [...] There is no pretier medicen for this, [...] then boxyng [...] perhaps this will not alter his lubberly condicions, yet I assure you, it wil for a time chaunge his knauishe complexion.
at lubberly, adj.
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