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Blood and knavery; a collection of English Renaissance pamphlets and ballads of crime and sin choose

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[UK] R.W. Pill to Purge Melancholy in Marshburn & Velie Blood and Knavery 1159: The lawyer began afresh to court his mistress, and to kiss and hug her close to him, proffering to feel her conundrum.
at conundrum, n.
[UK] R.W. Pill to Purge Melancholy in Marshburn & Velie Blood and Knavery 114: [He is] at a private vaulting school in Chancery Lane in company of certain ladies of pleasure.
at vaulting house, n.
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