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Mad Lover choose

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[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I ii: Talke not so big Sir, you will fright the Princesse.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: We can bounce [...] and frisk too.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: How our St. Georges will bestride the dragons, The red and ramping dragons!
at dragon, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: We can bounce, [...] and frisk too.
at frisk, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: How our St. Georges will bestride the dragons, The red and ramping dragons!.
at St George, n.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover IV iii: Why hang me.
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: You men of wares, the men of wars will nick ye: For starve nor beg they must not.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover IV ii: chilax: Ther’s an old Nunnerie at hand. cloe: What’s that? chilax: A bawdie House.
at nunnery, n.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover V iv: But they are needful mischiefs, And such are Nuts to me.
at nuts, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover I i: How our St. Georges will bestride the dragons, The red and ramping dragons!
at ramping, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover V iv: There’s a red rogue, to buy thee handkerchiefs.
at red rogue (n.) under red, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover IV ii: A bawdie House [...] Your pinkt Citizens That thinke no shame to shake a sheet there.
at shake a sheet (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover V iv: chi.: [Takes out his purse, and shakes it.] [...] Here are thumpers, chequins, golden rogues.
at thumper, n.
[UK] Fletcher Mad Lover II ii: Lets to’th Taverne, I have some few Crownes left yet: My whistle wet once Ile pipe him such a Paven.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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