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The Beaux’ Strategem choose

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[UK] Farquhar Beaux Strategem IV ii: The son of a bog-trotter in Ireland!
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem II i: She wheadles her booby up to town.
at booby, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem IV ii: gibbet: Well, my dear Bonny, you assure me that Scrub is a coward? boniface: A chicken, as the saying is.
at chicken, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem III iii: I dare not speak in the house, while that jade Gipsy dings about like a fury.
at ding, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V i: I dogged ’em to the very door, and left ’em breaking in.
at dog, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem III ii: The nymph that with her twice ten-hundred pounds, / With brazen engine hot, and quoif clear-starched, / Can fire the guest in warming of the bed.
at engine, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux Strategem II i: My parents [...] had early instructed me in rural accomplishments of drinking fat ale, playing at whisk, and smoking tobacco with my husband?
at fat ale (n.) under fat, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V ii: My hated husband abroad, and my lovely fellow at my feet! O ’gad, sister!
at gad!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V iii: Sir Charles Freeman! ’sdeath and hell! my old acquaintance.
at hell!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem I i: A highwayman! upon my life, girl, you have hit it.
at hit it, v.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem III iii: But I dare not put it upon the lay, for fear of being sent for a soldier.
at lay, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V ii: O madam, down upon your knees, your marrow-bones!
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem III ii: The nymph that with her twice ten-hundred pounds, / With brazen engine hot, and quoif clear-starched, / Can fire the guest in warming of the bed.
at nymph, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem I i: Ods my life, sir, we’ll drink her health.
at ods my life! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem II ii: ’Oons, what a witch it is!
at oons!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem II ii: D’ye know of any gentlemen o’ the pad on this road!
at pad, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem IV ii: But such a parcel of scoundrels are got about him now, that, egad, I was ashamed to be seen in their company.
at parcel, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V i: Enter squire sullen, drunk. [...] sir charles: But I presume, sir, you won’t see your wife tonight; she’ll be gone to bed. You don’t use to lie with your wife in that pickle?
at pickle, n.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem II ii: We’ll call him out and pump him a little.
at pump, v.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem V iv: Rot the money! my wench is gone.
at rot!, excl.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem I i: ’Sdeath, child, you have a pair of delicate eyes, and you don’t know what to do with ’em!
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem II ii: The devil! how d’ye smoke ’em?
at smoke, v.1
[UK] Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem I i: As to our hearts, I grant ye, they are as willing tits as any within twenty degrees.
at tit, n.1
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