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The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene choose

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[UK] Greene Mamillia II 187: [Clarynda was] wallowing in the waues of wantonnesse, and offering her incense at the altar of Venus.
at altar of hymen, n.
[UK] Greene Mamillia II 94: He must needes be a Carpet Knight: for they thinke it is as hard to lyue without loue as without meat.
at carpet knight, n.
[UK] Greene Mamillia II 229: Doest thou think Clarinda that I am so carelesse [...] as to choose such filthie chaffre, or so soone allured as to be in loue with such trash.
at chaffer, n.1
[UK] Greene Neuer Too Late in Grosart Works (1881–3) 154: She which hath crackt her credite is halfe hanged.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] Greene Neuer Too Late in Grosart Works (1881–3) 84: Thus in a quandarie, he sate.
at quandary, n.
[UK] Greene Neuer Too Late in Grosart Works (1881–3) 68: This country Franceso was no other but a meere nouice, & that so newly, that to vse the old prouerb, he had scarce seen the lions.
at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
[UK] Greene Neuer Too Late in Grosart Works (1881–3) 26: As soone as Diomede begins to court, shee like Venetian traffique is for his penny.
at traffic, n.
[UK] Greene Art of Conny-Catching in Grosart (1881–3) II 31: Clap a strong paire of bolts on his heeles, and a basill of 28. pound weight.
at basil, n.
[UK] Greene Art of Conny-Catching n.p.: duke He that standeth to watch In high lawe.
at duke, n.1
[UK] Greene Art of Conny-Catching in Grosart (1881–3) 38: In Figging law. The picke pocket, a Foin He that faceth the man, the Stale Taking the purse, Drawing Spying of him, Smoaking The purse, the Bong The monie, the Shels The Act doing, striking.
at foin, n.
[UK] Greene Art of Conny-Catching in Grosart (1881–3) 13: The Foist, the pick-pockets (sir reuerence I meane) is cros-bitten by the Snap, and so smoakt for his purchase.
at smoke, v.1
[UK] Greene Art of Conny-Catching in Grosart (1881–3) 9: The foist, the nip, the stale, the snap, I meane the pick-pockets and cut purses are nothing so dangerous to meete with all, as these Coosening Cunny-catchers.
at snap, n.1
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