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A Merry Song Called Love in a Barn choose

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[UK] A Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 6: Mark how this fair maid she did lay / a crafty country bite.
at bite, n.1
[UK] Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 6: If you can bite this am’rous blade, / rewarded you shall be.
at bite, v.
[UK] Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 4: Thou can’st dance in bed, my dear, / and that’s the prettiest sport.
at dance, v.
[UK] Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 6: A gang of Gypsies us’d to ly, / within the barn all night.
at gang, n.1
[UK] A Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 4: But country girls are not such fools / as to be taken in.
at take in, v.
[UK] A Merry Song Called Love in a Barn 4: But country girls are not such fools, / as to be taken in; / And you shall hear this country bite, / which she did put on him.
at put on, v.
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