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  1. Oct 2018
    1. Misterie

      "an action or practice about which there is or is reputed to be some secrecy; esp. a highly skillful or technical operation in a trade or art. " (OED)

    1. imprison'd in the viewlesse windes

      So Dante imagined the 2nd circle of purgatory where the lustful souls are tried.

    2. prenzie

      Nickname for precisian (puritan) or maybe presbyterian?

    3. Bring them to heare me speak

      switch "them" and "me"

    4. For all th' accommodations that thou bearst, 1218Are nurst by basenesse

      Everything you acquire—clothing wealth, shelter, food—comes by base activities like labor and trade or even stealing.

      Accommodation : " 2. Provision of what is suitable, necessary, or convenient." (OED

    1. comming
      1. intransitive. slang. To experience sexual orgasm; (of a man) to ejaculate. Cf. to come off 10 at Phrasal verbs 1. Now frequently in form cum.
    2. made

      or maid!

    1. theeues do passe on theeues

      See Matthew 7:1-2: "Judge not, that ye be not judged.

      2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."

    2. Tis one thing to be tempted

      Not according to Jesus in Matthew 5:28! "whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

    1. 153

      In the early 17th cent. sometimes used euphemistically as a name for syphilis, of which pain in the joints or sciatic nerve may be a symptom

    1. Cedule

      OED: " A slip or scroll of parchment or paper containing writing;"

    2. Antiques

      Antic: "A grotesquely figured representation of a face, such as are used in gargoyles." (OED)