queane
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If he bee lasciuiously addicted, they haue Are - tines Tables at their fingers endes, to feed him on with new kind of filthines, they wil come in with Rous the french Painter, and what an vsuall vaine in bawdery hee had: not a whore or queane about the towne but they know, and can tell you her marks, and where and with whom she hosts.
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If he bee lasciuiously addicted, they haue Are - tines Tables at their fingers endes, to feed him on with new kind of filthines, they wil come in with Rous the french Painter, and what an vsuall vaine in bawdery hee had: not a whore or queane about the towne but they know, and can tell you her marks, and where and with whom she hosts.
— C̀uthbert Conny-catcher'.: The Defence of Conny-catching -
On my bare honestie it was a craftie queane, for she had enacted with her selfe if he had bin my legitimate seruant, as he was one that serued and supplied my necessities, when hee had murthered me, to haue accused him of the murther, and made all that I had hers (as I carryed all my masters wealth, monie, iewels, rings, or bils of exchaunge continually about me.)
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse -
+ Downe with this litle queane, that hath at me such spite,
— Ralph Roister Doister -
England, by the maliceous counseyle and exitacion of Margaret his wife, namynge hir selfe queane of England, have conspired, "&c.
— The Grammar of English Grammars -
To take the queane in cure,
— The Knave of Clubbes
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