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The Platonic Lovers choose

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[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers IV i: We us’d to call A dozen apron squires t’uncloath the husband.
at apron squire (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers III i: scio.: He took the diet, sir, And in that very tub sweat for the French disease. fred.: And some unlearn’d apothcary since, Mistaking’s name, called it Cornelius Tub.
at Mother Cornelius’ tub, n.
[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers III i: He took the diet, sir, And in that very tub sweat for the French disease.
at French disease (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers V i: You shall hear all within, perhaps find cause To swaddle my old hide.
at hide, n.
[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers V i: You shall hear all within, perhaps find cause To swaddle my old hide.
at swaddle, v.
[UK] W. Davenant Platonic Lovers II i: He kept a wench! [...] my friend was lewdly given.
at wench, n.
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