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The Woman’s Prize choose

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[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize I iii: Like St. George at Kingston, Running a footback from the furious dragon.
at footback, n.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize I iii: Well, lusty Laurence, were but my night now, Old as I am, I would make you clap on Spurs, But I would reach you.
at lusty lawrence, n.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize IV iv: [She will] hire a piece of holy ground i’th’ Suburbs, And keep a Nest of Nuns.
at nun, n.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize II vi: E’re she have warm’d my sheets, e’re grappell’d with me, This Pinck, this painted Foist, this Cockle-boat, To hang her Fights out, and defie me friends, A well known man of war?
at pink, n.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize I i: All the ramping, roaring tricks, a whore Being drunk, and tumbling ripe, would tremble at.
at ramping, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize I i: Oh my old Sir, When shall we see your worship run at Ring? That hour, a standing were worth money.
at running at the ring (n.) under ring, n.
[UK] Fletcher Woman’s Prize I i: Do all the ramping, roaring tricks a whore, Being drunk and tumbling-ripe.
at ripe, adj.
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