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A Yorkshire Tragedy choose

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[UK] A Yorkshire Tragedy I iii: What the devil! How now? Thy hasty news?
at what the devil!, excl.
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I ii: Has the dog left me then After his tooth hath left me?
at dog, n.2
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I i: He calls his wife ‘whore’ as familiarly as one would call Moll and Doll.
at doll, n.1
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I ii: Shall I want dust / And like a slave wear nothing in my pockets / But my hands, to fill them up with nails?
at dust, n.
[UK] A Yorkshire Tragedy I v: wife: O my sweet husband! hus.: Filth, harlot.
at filth, n.
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I iii: To crouch and stand like an old man i’ the hams.
at ham, n.1
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I iii: Was this thy journey to Nunk, to set down The history of me, of my estate and fortunes?
at nunky, n.
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I v: ’Sblood! you have undone us all, sir.
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] Yorkshire Tragedy I i: ’Slid, I hear Sam, Sam’s come.
at ’slid!, excl.
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