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The False Count, or, A new way to play an old game choose

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[UK] Behn False Count II ii: A proud ungracious Flurt, – a Lord with a Pox, here’s fine business i’faith.
at business, n.
[UK] Behn False Count IV ii: I defie thee, thou foul filthy Cabbage head, for I am mad, and will be valiant.
at cabbage-head, n.
[UK] Behn False Count I i: Kist by anothers Lips! no Jacinta, that night that gives him to another Woman, shall see him dead between the Charmers Armes.
at charmer, n.
[UK] Behn False Count II ii: If I do not fix you with a Don better than Don De’ll [...] or Don Quixote, let me be hang’d up for the sign of the Black Boy [...] at a Spanish Inn dore.
at don, n.
[UK] Behn False Count Epilogue: Of the faux Braves I’ve had some little trial, / There’s nothing gives ’em credit but denyal; / As when a Coward will pretend to Huffing. / Offer to fight, away sneaks Bully-Ruffin.
at huff, v.
[UK] Behn False Count I i: A little Citizen and Merchant – she so reviles, Calling me base Mechanick, Sawcy Fellow.
at mechanic, n.
[UK] Behn False Count IV i: Your true-bred Woman of Honour drinks all, Supernaculum, by Jove.
at supernaculum, n.
[UK] Behn False Count IV i: Your Citizens Wives simper and sip, and will be drunk without doing Credit to the Treater; but in their Closets they swinge it away, whole Slashes i’faith.
at swinge, v.
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