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Woman is a Weathercock choose

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[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III ii: O good old woman she is top-shackled. She’ll be as drunk as a porter.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: pouts.: Strange murdered on the wedding-day by you, At his own bride’s appointment, for my sake? strange.: As dead as charity.
at dead as..., adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: Thou, a soldier! A captain of the suburbs, a poor foist.
at captain, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock (1888) I ii: Scratch faces, like a wild-cat of Pick’d-hatch.
at cat, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: Thy slops and cat-a-mountain face, Thy bladder-chops and thy robustious words, Fright’st the poor whore.
at chops, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: Now, turtle, mourning still for the party? for whom are you working that purse?
at turtle (dove), n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II ii: Ha’ you not heard nor read / Of some base slave that, wagging his fair-head, / Does whistling at one end of his shop-walk, / Whilst some Gay man doth vomit bawdy talk / In his wife’s ears at the other.
at gay, adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock (1888) V ii: Why, then, by God’s-lid, thou art a base rogue.
at God’s lid! (excl.) under God, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock (1888) I ii: God’s precious! Save you Mistresse Wagtail.
at God, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: He scorns you at his heels [...] And has sent this halter. You may hang yourself.
at halter, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III iii: Hang her, she’s but a bauble.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock I ii: Where I suspected you might lie all night; Scratch faces, like a wild-cat of Pick’d-hatch.
at picked-hatch, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: A hot knight, by my faith; Do’t-well and Burn-it too.
at hot, adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: She showed me to a necessary vault. Within a closet in the chamber too.
at necessary house, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: What say ye, Jack Sauce?
at jack sauce (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock I ii: abra: My father is a Ninny, and my mother was a Hammer. capt. pouts: You should be a knocker, then, by the mother’s side.
at knocker, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: wag.: I am with child by you. pen.: By me? Why, by me? A good jest [...] Why, do you think I am such an ass to believe nobody has meddled with you but I?.
at meddle (with), v.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III iii: The merchant is dead for shame.
at merchant, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock (1888) I ii: God’s precious! Save you Mistresse Wagtail.
at Miss, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: wag: What say ye, Jack Sauce? page: O fie, ill-mutton! you are too angry.
at mutton, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III iii: Od’s will, have you nobody to put your gulls upon but knights?
at ods, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: Thou Pancridge parson!
at pancridge parson, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III ii: She’ll be as drunk as a porter. I’ll tell you, my lord, I have seen her so be-piss the rushes, as she has danced at a wedding.
at piss, v.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock II i: nin.: O ’tis a pestilence knight, Mistress Lucinda. luc.: Ay, and a pocky.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock V ii: Heart! I have so ruminated on a wife, that I must have one this night, or I shall run proud.
at proud, adj.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock I ii: Mistress Kate likes me not; she says I speak as if I had a pudding in my mouth, and I answered her, if I had a white pudding (sausage) [...] I was better armed for a woman.
at pudding, n.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock I ii: ’Sfoot! he shall have my bond to do him good.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: Thou snapp’st besides with cheats and cutpurses.
at snap, v.
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III iii: What a mad villain art thou, a striker, a fiftieth part of Hercules, to get one wench with child, and go a-wooing to another.
at striker, n.1
[UK] N. Field Woman is a Weathercock IV ii: Thou, a soldier! A captain of the suburbs, a poor foist.
at suburb, n.
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