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The Spanish Fryar choose

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[UK] Dryden Spanish Fryar III iii: This is no huge, overgrown abbey lubber; this is but a diminutive sucking friar.
at abbey-lubber, n.
[UK] Dryden Spanish Fryar V ii: I shall fetch him back with a circumbendibus, I warrant him.
at circumbendibus, n.
[UK] Dryden Spanish Fryar V ii: ped.: Gomez, give way to the old gentleman in black. gom.: No! the t’other old gentleman in black shall take me if I do; I will speak first!
at old gentleman, n.
[UK] Dryden Spanish Fryar I ii: A jealous, covetous, old hunks.
at hunks, n.
[UK] Dryden Spanish Fryar Act I: I have been ranging over half the Town; but have sprung no Game.
at range, v.
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