The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash
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30 _us'd_, vsd; _yong_, younge. 31 _ask't_, askt; _I ment as I profest_, soothe were my request. 32 _onelie ask't_, onely moud. 33 _it_, yt. 34 _com_, come; _give_, giue; _Jill_, Gill. 35 _"Why, Sir." quoth shee, "if that be your demande,"_ "If that yt be," quoth she, "that you demaunde." 36 _Com laye me a God's-pennie_, then giue me first a godes peny. "God's-pennie, an earnest-pennie."--Florio, p. 36. 37 _oratorie siccarlie_, oratory, siccarly. "Oratory," properly a private chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel: cf. abbess = bawd; nun = whore, and so forth. "Siccarly," certainly, surely "Thou art here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye," MS. Cantab Ff. ii., 38, f. 240. 38 _heere_, in; _nicarie_, deuory. "Nick," female _pudendum_: hence nickery, copulation. Deuory may either be Fr. _devoir_, duty; or devoure, to ravish, to deflower. 39 _offertorie_, affidavit. 40 _wee'le_, Ile. |
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