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  • Wenches, whilst I fell his Woods, and grant Leases: And lastly, to make good what I have cozen'd him of, force him to marry Mrs. Crump, the ill-favour'd Daughter of some

    The City Heiress 1682

  • Who would have taken so much Care of his own ill-favour'd Person,

    The City Heiress 1682

  • _Arabicks_ call it, and your ill-favour'd Countenance, are constant

    The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

  • _ Hast thou the Impudence to ask, who took my Money to marry me to this ill-favour'd Baboon?

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Ass, to simper, and look demure, and start at Oaths and Wenches, whilst I fell his Woods, and grant Leases: And lastly, to make good what I have cozen'd him of, force him to marry Mrs. Crump, the ill-favour'd Daughter of some Right Worshipful.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • I intended him a habit much more notably ridiculous, which if ever it be important was so here, for many of the Scenes in the three last Acts depended upon the mistakes of the Colonel for Haunce, which the ill-favour'd likeness of their Habits is suppos'd to cause.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Virtue is but an Infirmity in Women, a Disease that renders even the handsom ungrateful; whilst the ill-favour'd, for want of Solicitations and

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • But lest you shou'd not know, I will inform you: First, Heav'n made you a deform'd, ill-favour'd Creature; then the Rascal your Father made you a Taylor; next, your Wife made you a Cuckold; and lastly the Devil has made you a

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • _ Surely that's my old Mistress, _Dormida_; twenty years has not made so great an Alteration in that ill-favour'd Face of hers, but I can find a Lover there.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • _ Faith, _Euphemia_, you might have believ'd, and taken me upon better Terms, if you had so pleas'd: To marry you is but an ill-favour'd

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

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