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Rare and Good News for Wives in City and Country choose

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[UK] Rare and Good News for Wives in City and Country 4: [Husbands] when they have been a caterwouling all day, [...] come home with weeping Codpiece, to tell a sham story of straining their backs, by taking a ditch after the Buck or Hare.
at caterwaul, v.
[UK] Rare and Good News for Wives in City and Country 4: Yet this Sr. Fopling must be entertain’d.
at foplin, n.
[UK] Rare and Good News for Wives in City and Country 3: He must be no other than one of those pittyful Muck-worms, that all day go with Breasts unbutton’d.
at muck-worm, n.
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