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A Knight’s Conjuring choose

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[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring Ch. VI H1: Tell all the Brokers in Long-lane, Houns ditch, or else wher, with all the rest of their Colleagued Suburbians, that deal vpon ouer-worne commodities [...] that they lye safe enough.
at broker, n.1
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring cap V F4: Feeling hee had such doings [....] he must needs take a seruant.
at doings, n.1
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring Ch. III E2: Hee wold signify to their fathers how course the threed of life fell out to be nowe towards the Fagge ende.
at fag end, n.
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring cap 1 B: When it was a morning to tempt love to leap from heauen, and to goe a wenching; or to make wenches leaue their soft beds, to haue greene gownes giuen to them in the fields.
at give someone a green gown (v.) under green gown, n.
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring Ch. I B2: This was a knight forsworne, a poore knight [...] a knight of the Post.
at knight of the post, n.
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring Ch.VII 12: Monsieur Money-monger stood onely staring and yawning vpon him.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring cap IV E4: France, where the Gentlemen, to make Apes of Englishmen, whom they tooke daylie practising all the foolish trickes of fashions after their Mounsier-ships.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] A Knight’s Conjuring cap VI H1: Tell all the Brokers in Long-lane, Houns ditch, or else wher, with all the rest of their Colleagued Suburbians, that deal vpon ouer-worne commodities [...] that they lye safe enough.
at suburbian, n.
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