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The Maid in the Mill choose

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[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill II ii: Shut in those golden eyne, And I will kisse those sweet blind cheeks of thine.
at blind cheeks (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill II ii: Had I gone a Boot-haling, I should as soon Have stolne him.
at boothale, v.
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill II ii: Now Ladies fight, with heels so light, by lot your luck must fall, Where Paris please, to do you ease, and give the golden Ball.
at light heels, n.
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill II ii: She’s hors’d, she’s hors’d, whether she will or no [...] She’s hors’d upon a double Gelding.
at horse, v.
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill V ii: I have oft been found-a Thrown on my back, on a well-fill’d sack, while the Mill has still gone round-a.
at mill, n.1
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill IV i: You are going a smocking perhaps.
at smock, v.
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill V ii: otrante: Then you have traded? florimell: Traded? how should I know else how to live Sir, And how to satisfie such Lords as you are, Our best guests, and our richest?
at trade, v.
[UK] Fletcher & Rowley Maid in the Mill I iii: Am I not able [...] to deliver A Letter handsomly! Is that such a hard thing? Why every wafer-woman will undertake it.
at wafer-woman, n.
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