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The Pleasures of Coition choose

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[UK] ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ in Pleasures of Coition xiv: Now to those Groves I wing my way / Where sports the Golden Cyprian Queen.
at Cyprian, n.
[UK] Beckingham ‘Wishing his Mistress would never cease Kissing him’ in Pleasures of Coition 53: My pretty charming Turtle Dove.
at turtle (dove), n.1
[UK] ‘Sick Wife’ Pleasures of Coition iii: The Good-Man, careful for n’own Dear, / Limps after to her Chamber; / Cries, duck, I’m due t’ye in Arrear, / I’ll do’t fine as Amber.
at duck, n.1
[UK] ‘On the Death of Mr. Viner, by Dean Parnelle’ in Pleasures of Coition n.p.: Those Fingers, which such Pleasure did convey, / Must now become to stupid Worms a prey: / The grateful fiddle will for ever stand / A silent Mourner for its Master’s Hand.
at fiddle, n.1
[UK] ‘The Sportsman’ Pleasures of Coition n.p.: But rising with the early Morn, / Pursues the nimble Game.
at game, n.
[UK] ‘The Sick Wife’ Pleasures of Coition iii: Her Husband’s Company she quits, / And throws herself on Bed, / The Good-Man, careful for n’own Dear, / Limps after to her Chamber.
at good man (n.) under good, adj.1
[UK] G. Ogle ‘Salutation of his Mistress’ in Pleasures of Coition 52: My Honey and my Gall!
at honey, n.1
[UK] ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ in Pleasures of Coition xxiv: Thus, Pleasure’s Fountain once exhausted, / From which the vital Marrow flow’d.
at marrow, n.
[UK] ‘The Tea-Pot’ Pleasures of Coition ii: By Name of Tea-Pot all Men know me.
at pot, n.1
[UK] ‘The Sick Wife’ in Pleasures of Coition iv: I had the finest Thingum for ye – / Another time I’ll find. / Nay, stay, cries she, I prithee; why / ’Tis that’s the Thing I lack for ye.
at thing, n.
[UK] ‘The Sick Wife’ in Pleasures of Coition iv: I had the finest Thingum for ye.
at thingum, n.
[UK] ‘Ode to Melancholy’ Pleasures of Coition iv: The Spark, whose Noddle’s totty of the Must.
at totty, adj.
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