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I see, my doctrine moves no precise ears, But such as are profess'd inamoratos.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

He is one of my inamoratos, Sir; They call him Mounsir Device.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

While this taste, therefore, is so naturally prevalent, I doubt, to propose remedies for it were but giving laws to the winds, or advice to inamoratos.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)