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The Woman Hater choose

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[UK] Beaumont Woman Hater II i: What the deuill do’st thou in blacke.
at what the devil...?, phr.
[UK] Beaumont Woman Hater I ii: His pallace is full of greene geese [...] O thou Goddesse of plentie.
at green goose (n.) under green, adj.1
[UK] Beaumont Woman Hater III iii: Shee’s a piece of dainty stuffe my rogue, smooth, and soft as new Satten.
at piece of stuff (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Beaumont Woman Hater II i: Those are damnable Bawdes, twas no set meeting certainlie; for there was no wafer-woman with her these three daies, on my knowledge.
at wafer-woman, n.
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