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’Tis Pity She’s A Whore choose

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[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I iii: Well, Bergetto, I fear thou wilt be a very ass still.
at ass, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore IV iii: I’ll help your old gums, you toad-bellied bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore II iv: O, you think I am a blockhead, uncle.
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore III i: Ay, let him not bob you off like an ape with an apple.
at bob, v.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore IV iii: Alas, to marry a great woman, being made great in the stock to your hand, is a usual sport in these days; but to know what ferret it was that haunted your cony-berry, there’s the cunning.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I ii: Scold like a cot-quean, that’s your profession. Thou poor shadow of a soldier.
at cotquean, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore III vii: O help, help! Here’s a stitch fallen in my guts. O for a flesh-tailor quickly!
at flesh tailor (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I ii: And had not your sudden coming prevented us, I had let my gentleman blood under the gills.
at gills, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore IV iii: Let me come to her; I’ll help your old gums, you toad-bellied bitch. Sirs, carry her closely into the coalhouse, and put out her eyes instantly.
at gums, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I ii: He crinkles so much in the hams.
at ham, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore III i: Hang him, old doting rascal. No, I say I will have her.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I iii: bergetto: Why, uncle, should I sit at home still, and not go abroad to see fashions like other gallants? donaldo: To see hobby-horses!
at hobby horse, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore III i: There’s no way but to clap up a marriage in hugger-mugger.
at in hugger-mugger (adv.) under hugger-mugger, n.1
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore III ix: Why, how now, friends! What saucy mates are you / That know nor duty nor civility?
at mate, n.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I iii: O, the wench! Uds sa’ me, uncle, I tickled her with a rare speech, that I made her almost burst her belly with laughing.
at tickle, v.
[UK] Ford ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore I iii: O, the wench! Uds sa’ me, uncle, I tickled her with a rare speech.
at ud, n.
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