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All Fooles choose

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[UK] Chapman All Fooles IV ii: What eagles we are still In matters that belong to other men, What beetles in our own!
at beetle, n.1
[UK] Chapman All Fooles I ii: maid: I’ll play no more. lem.: No, faith, you need not now, you have played your bellyful.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles I ii: Walk not too boldly; if the sergeants meet you, You may have swaggering work your bellyfull.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles IV i: I will not hear a word; out, out upon thee! Wed without my advice, my love, my knowledge, Ay, and a beggar, too, a trull, a blowse!
at blowse, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles I i: I can come To lay no batt’ry to the fort I seek. All passages to it so strongly kept By strait guard of her father.
at fort, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles III i: Faith, Pock, ’tis a joint I would be loath to lose for the best joint of mutton in Italy.
at joint, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles III i: But in thy amorous conquests at the last Some wound will slice your mazer.
at mazard, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles II i: I made no more ado, but laid these paws Close on his shoulders, tumbling him to earth.
at paw, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles I i: All day in ceaseless uproar with their households, If all the night their husbands have not pleas’d them.
at please, v.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles I ii: What, no more compliment? Kiss her, you sheep’s head!
at sheep’s head (n.) under sheep, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles III i: For thy brisk attire and lips perfum’d, Thou playest the stallion ever where thou com’st.
at stallion, n.
[UK] Chapman All Fooles IV i: I will not hear a word; out, out upon thee! Wed without my advice, my love, my knowledge, Ay, and a beggar, too, a trull, a blowse!
at trull, n.
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