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Our Popes and Fryars on one Sida offend

And yet alasa the City's not our Friend : i * ^ foolish

The City neither likes us nor our Wi7, j wordamon^

Tkey iay their Wivet learn * ogling i« the PU; \ the Ganter»

Theyr from the Box^a taught to make Advancea^ \ forglancing. Ta answer Mtolen Sighs and^ naughty Glancea..,,

(Shadwell, Épilogue de The Lancashire Witches.)

2. On le sentait bien même alors : - And he (T. Killigrew) tells me plainly thaï the city audience was as good as the Court; but now they are m'ost gone •. (Pepys, 12 févr. 1606-7.)

3. Downes, p. 37, parlant de VOEdipe de Dryden et de Lee : « it look prodigiously, being Acted 10 Days togcther •.

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