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The Mock-Tempest choose

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[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest I i: [A] Trunk of Perfum’d Linnen which the Old Knight us’d to play hey Gamer Cook.
at play hey gammer cook (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest V i: Her thing is her own, and I’le bounce it anon.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] T. Duffett Mock-Tempest III i: My Lord Bacchus leads ’em on; my Lady Venus brings ’em off.
at bring off, v.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: I know who has been taken up in the common, and rode so many heats that they got the French fashions.
at French, adj.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: Though our Dancing Schooles ruin’d, we have sav’d our Instruments.
at instrument, n.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: The pox will take him, for he is a Termagant at laced Mutton.
at laced mutton (n.) under laced, adj.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III ii: I never danc’d naked at the French house for Mild-Sixpences, goody Lerry-come-twang.
at lerrycometwang, n.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: If five or six Gallants stood in the way, Lord what rustling and cringing was there to Madam Stephania?–Aunt, cries one, how does my little Neece?
at niece, n.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: She [i.e. a whore] carries an enchanted Ring about her which turns Rich men to beggars, and makes an Ass of a Justice of the Peace.
at ring, n.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest III i: Thou salt Suburbian Hackney.
at suburbian, n.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock-Tempest II ii: Shrieks as of switcheld lass I heard.
at swinge, v.
[UK] T. Duffet Mock Tempest I i: Nounz, stir about, or I’le beat thy brains out with my Bottle.
at nouns!, excl.
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