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(Crown, épilogue do Sir Courtly Nice.)

9. ... He resigns himself to slecp, but roused suddenly by the pétulant pinch of some neighbouring wench, he suddenly proclaims his pretensions to wit and criticism, by loudly damning the play, with a most tragical face. (Proteus lîedivivust the Art of Vi^heedling^ a liltle work written in the reign of Charles II, cité par Malcolm, p. 167.) — Voy. p. 62, une citation de The Characler of A Town^Gallant^ conçue presque dans les mômes termes.

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