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The Gotham Election choose

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[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Five Thousand Pound! a-gad.
at agad!, excl.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: A Pox of the unpolish’d Blockhead.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Come, for once, serve yourself and your Country, old Boy.
at old boy, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: His Lady is a what d’ye call it – a High-flyer.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: A Parcel of canting Rogues.
at canting, adj.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Zounds I hate these Whiggish Dogs.
at dog, n.2
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: I’ll murder you, you dirty, draggle-tail’d Slut.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: His Lady is a what d’ye call it – a High-flyer, – and nothing so great as our Parson’s Wife and she.
at high-flyer, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: He be not a plaguey High Boy, I’m mistaken.
at high boy (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: We wou’d have had the Mayor made his Mittimus, and zend him to a Gaol.
at mittimus, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Od wou’d you had her, Mr. Friendly.
at od, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: He is none of your occasional Cattle; none of your hellish pantile Crew.
at pantile, adj.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: A Parcel of canting Rogues.
at parcel, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: With all my Heart; hang Petticoat Government I zay.
at petticoat government (n.) under petticoat, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Here’s your Godson, Sir, a fine thumping Boy.
at thumping, adj.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Our Town has an Aversion for the Family of the Tickups; it is a Name very much hated, I assure you, an I might advise you, I’d change it into Ready Cash, ha, ha.
at tick, v.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Wounds, play what I bad ye.
at wounds!, excl.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gotham Election I i: Zooks I love to wear my own Breeches.
at zooks!, excl.
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