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" Pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the Pica in a Woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for Food, or a Girl in the Greensickness, that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of Pleasure have filled his Mind with bad and vicious Humours... "
The Rehearsal: First Acted 7 Dec. 1671. Published ?July 1672. With ... - Page 13
by George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1868 - 136 pages
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being -irk and tired with the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false values upon things, which,...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 1

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 562 pages
...never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual snrfeits of pleasure have filled his mind with bad and vicious humours (as well as bis body with a nursery of diseases), which makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being sick...
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Hudibras, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1859 - 624 pages
...the pica in a woman, that longs to eat what was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being tired and sick of the old. Continual wine, women, and music put false values upon things, which by...
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Poetical Works, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pages
...in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being tired and sick with the old. Continual wine, women, and music put false values upon things, which by...
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... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 588 pages
...or a Girl in the Green -si ckness; that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of Pleasure h;;ve filled his Mind with bad and vicious Humours (as well...Continual Wine, Women, and Music put false Values upon Filings, which by Custom become habitual, and debauch his Understanding so, that ht retains no right...
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Memoirs of count Grammont, ed., with notes, by sir W. Scott

Anthony Hamilton - 1876 - 552 pages
...opened the way to those favours to which he was afterwards advanced. a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false value upon things, which, by custom, become habitual, and debauch his understandingso,thatheretains...
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The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, Etc

George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - English drama - 1895 - 182 pages
...Food, or a Girl in the Green-sickness, that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of Pleasure hi;ve filled his Mind with bad and vicious Humours (as well...become habitual, and debauch his Understanding so, that ht retains no right Notion nor Sense of Things. And as the same Dose of the same Physic has no Operation...
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Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 1

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1903 - 378 pages
...in a woman, that longs to eat that which was nerer made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...well as his body with a nursery of diseases), which make him affect new and extravagant ways, as being sick and tired with the old. Continual wine, women,...
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Memoirs of Count Gramont

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1906 - 636 pages
...in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and mortar. Perpetual surfeits of...the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false value upon things, which, by custom, become habitual, and debauch his understanding so, that he retains...
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... Characters and Passages from Note-books

Samuel Butler - Characters and characteristics - 1908 - 516 pages
...he dispatches his Business ; and Dispatch is no mean Virtue in a Statesman. A DUKE OF BUCKS IS one that has studied the whole Body of Vice. His Parts...his Body with a Nursery of Diseases) which makes him affedt new and extravagant Ways, as being sick and tired with the Old. Continual Wine, Women, and Music...
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