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Wit’s Academy, or, The Muse’s Delight choose

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[UK] W.P. Wit’s Academy II 17: [He] grafts on himself the gay horns that he wears.
at graft, v.1
[UK] W.P. Wit’s Academy II 98: A lusty stout Captain laid siege to my Ford [...] And he had a Gun gave such a report: That I could not at all complain.
at gun, n.1
[UK] W.P. Wit’s Academy II 96: [A] young Miss who ... sucks the Marrow, and I pick the Bone.
at marrow, n.
[UK] ‘Country-man’s Prophecy’ in W.P. Wit’s Academy Pt 2 126: Old Mother Damnable.
at Mother Damnable (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] W.P. Wit’s Academy Pt 2 126: Whetstone-Park Ladies.
at Whetstone Park deer (n.) under Whetstone Park, n.
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