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Sir Courtly Nice choose

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[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice I i: A rambling woman [...] will be apt to bring her virtue as a traveller does his money, from a broad piece to a brass farthing.
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice [title].
at Sir Courtly Nice, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice II i: vio.: I am told you hav been an Oxford scholar. cr.: A scholar, madam? a scholar’s egg— emptied by old suck-eggs.
at suck-egg, n.
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice I i: Reputation will hang loose upon a galloping lady.
at gallop, v.
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice I i: A doctor! a quack [...] we shall see him mount the stage, or stand at the Old—Exchange, and cry a cure for your horns! a cure for your horns!
at horn, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice II i: A gold-finder, madam? look into jakes for bits o’ money?
at jakes, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice II i: Eve, the mother of all jilts.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice I i: A rambling woman [...] will be apt to bring her virtue as a traveller does his money, from a broad piece to a brass farthing.
at ramble, v.
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