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The Island Princess choose

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[UK] Fletcher Island Princess III i: Mine uncle haunts me up and down, looks melancholy [...] and groans, as if he had the Bots.
at bots, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Island Princess I iii: Am I in competition with such bubbles?
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Island Princess III i: (aside) That’s the old Hen, the brood bird? How she bustles?
at hen, n.
[UK] Fletcher Island Princess III i: Yes marry is she sir.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Fletcher Island Princess V iii: Here flyes a poudring-tub, the meat ready roasted, and there a barrel pissing vinegar.
at powdering tub, n.
[UK] T. Killigrew Princess I i: They are the prettiest kind of commodities, these women, that a man can deal in.
at commodity, n.
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