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The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England choose

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[UK] J. Gauden Tears, Sighs, etc. of the Church of England Bk IV 595: Yea some are such Cossets and Tantanies, that they congratulate their Oppressors, and flatter their Destroyers.
at anthony, n.
[UK] J. Gauden Tears, Sighs, etc. of the Church of England Bk II 238: Presently he is scared with the menaces of some proling Sequestrator, or some surly Aproniere.
at aproneer (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] J. Gauden Tears, Sighs, etc. of the Church of England Bk II 228: Ministers’ scufflings and contests with one another, is beyond any Cock fighting or Bear-baiting to the vulgar envy, malice, profaneness, and petulancy.
at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
[UK] J. Gauden Tears, Sighs, etc. of the Church of England Bk IV 682: He might have swallowed those holy (but now desecrated) morsells in secret, and not have proclaimed on the house-top to all the world, the rost-meat he hath gotten.
at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
[UK] J. Gauden Tears, Sighs, etc. of the Church of England Bk IV 426: What Christian is there of so popular, plebian, triviall, and mechanick a spirit, as not to desire to see proper and meet judges.
at mechanic, adj.
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