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The Married Beau choose

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[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau V i: He has been blabbing: he has told my Master.
at blab, v.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau III ii: So! She’s alone! now will I board my Prize. Dear Madam!
at board, v.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau II i: I think the Woman has been Drinking, Christening her Clapper to drive Devils away.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau II i: I am stung with a wanton Tarantula, and shall never be cur’d till I hear my Wedding Fiddle: and have danc’d a Jig with a Husband i’Bed.
at dance, v.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau I i: Here’s my Wife! See! She is no light Piece. She makes the Garden bend, all the Fops bow to her: Would she admit Inhabitants, my Bed Might be a populous Place.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau IV i: I don’t know what I am now; a Pickleherring, I think. I’d be loath to meet with a hungry Dutch Seaman.
at pickle-herring, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau Prologue: Many a Gallant who looks huffing big, Ows all his Granduer to his Swinging Wig.
at huffing, adj.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau II i: I am stung with a wanton Tarantula, and shall never be cur’d till I hear my Wedding Fiddle: and have danc’d a Jig with a Husband i’Bed.
at jig, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau Epilogue: I’m not the Woman, which you take me for. But when the little shining round-fac’d Rogues, Call’d Guineys, peep — Ah! how a Jilt Collogues.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau I i: Here’s my Wife! See! She is no light Piece. She makes the Garden bend, all the Fops bow to her: Would she admit Inhabitants, my Bed Might be a populous Place.
at light, adj.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau Drammatis Personae: Mr. Lovely. A new Married Beau [...] believes himself very Handsome.
at lovely, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau I i: I’m loath to noose my self in Marriage.
at noose, v.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau II i: A sluttish Wench with a Dirt Pie.
at pie, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau IV i: Oh! th’impudent nasty Sow!
at sow, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau I i: A swinging Beauty!
at swinging, adj.1
[UK] J. Crowne Married Beau II i: I am for digging where most Treasure is, My Wand will bend that way.
at wand, n.
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