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A Mad Couple Well-Match’d choose

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[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple II i: How easie a worke / ’Twere for one woman to supply ’em both, / And hold her husband play to levell Acoile, / A wooden two-leav’d booke, a paire of Tables / Would do’t.
at play (at) level-coil (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple I i: Such shee-customers, as an Aunt of mine shall finde out for us.
at aunt, n.
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple III i: How came up the proverbe, Shee is one of mine Aunts, doe you thinke?
at aunt, n.
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple I i: No Gentlemen can be able to hold it out. They are too weake to make common He whores.
at he-whore, n.
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match’d I i: A pepper-corne a quarter, if shee be Pepper-proofe.
at pepper-proof (adj.) under pepper, v.
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple V ii: You had a thin chin’d husband, plaid at Doublets with ye, And that perhaps, but twise or thrice a weeke, You are incapable of better Game, Here’s one shall hold me Tick tack night by night.
at tick-tack, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match’d I i: Zownds I was going with full speed a Tilt.
at zounds!, excl.
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