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Dialogue Between Mistress Macquerella a Suburban Whore choose

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[UK] Dialogue Between Mistress Macquerella a Suburban Whore 4: See the Chambers where you sinne / Have neither flaw, nor cranny, / No hole for any to peepe in; / For if witnessed by any / That he did you see, and rem in re / At the work of generation / By Cupids Bow, y’ are hangd, I know, / For example to the Nation.
at caught with rem-in-re, phr.
[UK] Dialogue Between Mistress Macquerella a Suburban Whore I: I have not had a Cullee worth half a Crown to me this half a score dayes.
at cully, n.1
[UK] Dialogue Between Mistress Macquerella a Suburban Whore 2: I would play Oedipus, and pull out my own eyes that I might not behold the misery that is fallen upon the poor pentioners of the Placket.
at pensioner of the placket, n.
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