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[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks II i: What a deuce shou’d such a young fellow as I trouble himself with State-affairs for?
at what the deuce...?, phr.
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks IV i: Poetry be hang’d, and prose too!
at hang, v.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I ii: Since he is so huffy and stormy, I’ll be a storm.
at huffy, adj.
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: It cost me the Lord knows what in one beauty-water or another.
at Lord knows under Lord, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks V i: I’ll [...] cut the throats of such rogues as you, who abuse your trade, and like so many padders, make all people deliver their purse that ride in the road of justice.
at padder, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: He can’t speak, he’s so hoarse; he’s gone to drink a glass of sack to clear his pipes.
at clear one’s pipes (v.) under pipes, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: A rank sham o’ both sides.
at sham, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: Confound thee! sink thee!
at sink me! (excl.) under sink, v.
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: I’ll teach you to play the knave, you stinking damn’d fellow you!
at stinking, adj.1
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: My fair love [...] She shall have all the tillage I can give.
at tillage (n.) under till, v.
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks I i: My fair love, like an o’er fertile field, May breed rank weeds, if she be idly till’d.
at till, v.
[UK] J. Crowne City Politicks V i: craf.: Where did you take your degree — in Beargarden? dr.: In a learn’d university, sir. craf.: I’ the University of Coffee-houses, the University of Lies.
at university of life (n.) under university, n.
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