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No whispering, Gentlewoman and putting Tricks into her head; that shall not cheat me of another Night Look on that silly little round Chitty-face look on those smiling roguish loving Eyes there look look how they laugh, twire, and tempt he, Rogue I'll buss 'em there, and here, and every where ods bods away, this is fooling and spoiling of a Man's Stomach, with a bit here, and a bit there to Bed to Bed
Older dictionaries give wrong and misleading definitions of this word; and a spurious twire, to sing, was inferred from a misreading 'twierethe' for 'twitereth' in Chaucer's Boethius, III m. 2. Modern authorities only allow twire, to peep, as in Shakespeare's 28th Sonnet, 'When sparkling stars twire not, thou gildst the even' 'The tiny frogs Go yerking'.
Martin-le-Grand was formerly celebrated for the number of shops vending cheap and imitation jewellery within its purlieus. 'St. Martin's ware' came to mean a forgery. p. 205 nick their Inclinations. To nick = to thwart. A somewhat uncommon use. p. 207 the wonderful Salamanca Doctor. cf. II, p. 433. silken Doctor. The City Heiress. II, p. 437. Salamanca. p. 208 the Twire. cf. II, p. 440.
Amorous Twire. p. 210 gutling. Guzzling, cf. supra, p. 479. p. 210 Docity. cf. II, p. 441. Docity. p. 210 laid in Lavender. An old and common phrase for 'to pawn'. cf. Florio, Worlds of Wordes : 'To lay to pawne, as we say, to lay in Lavender. Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, Act iii, sc. p. 210 Enter Rag and Landlady. Mrs. Behn remembered how Don John treated Dame Gillian, his landlady.
Ay, ay, Madam, to the Comfort of many a hoping Coxcomb: but Lette, Rogue Lette thou wo't not make me free o'th' City a second time, wo't thou entice the Rogues with the Twire and the wanton Leer the amorous Simper that cries, come, kiss me then the pretty round Lips are pouted out he, Rogue, how I long to be at 'em! well, she shall never go to Church more, that she shall not. L. Ful.
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