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The City-Night-Cap choose

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[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 3: Let Ballet-mongers crown him with their scorns: Who buys the Bucks Head, well deserves the Horns.
at buck, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: Let ballad-mongers crown him with their scorns: Who buys the buck’s-head well deserves the horns.
at buckface (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) II 11: Ha, ha, ha, now do I see, cuckold-making is as ticklish a profession as Cunny-catching.
at cony-catcher, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 6: Sweet Chick, I come to take leave of thee.
at chick, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) II 13: Farewell My chaste delitious Doll.
at doll, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 9: I that shews her light from head to heel, sir; [...] then whose wives have light heels.
at light heels, n.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) 11: That men should ever marry! that we should lay our heads, and take our hornes up out of womans laps.
at horn, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: Confidence makes not so many cuckolds in England, but craft picks open more padlocks in Italy.
at Italian padlock (n.) under Italian, adj.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: We should lay our heads, And take our horns up out of women’s laps.
at lap, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 5: Confidence makes not so many Cuckolds in England, but Craft picks open more Padlocks in Italy.
at lock, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 3: Let Ballet-mongers crown him with their scorns: Who buys the Bucks Head, well deserves the Horns.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) IV 39: mor.: Came this nice piece from Naples, with a pox to her? tim.: And she has not Neapolitanis’d him, I’ll be flead fo’t.
at Neapolitan, adj.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) IV 41: So a City-Night-Cap; for whilst he doth rome And frights abroad, his wife commits at home.
at nightcap, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) IV 39: Came this nice piece from Naples, with a pox to her?
at piece, n.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) II 13: Oh my sweet birds-nie!
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 3: Learn of your City-Wagtail; with one eye Violently love your Husband, and with t’other Wink at your Friend.
at wagtail, n.
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