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ters, underfed: nagging firenibblers knockling aterman up out of
his hinterclutch. Tomb be their tools! When the youngdammers
will be soon heartpocking on their betters' doornoggers: and the
youngfries will be backfrisking diamondcuts over their lyingin
underlayers, spick and spat trowelling a gravetrench for their
fourinhand forebears. Vote for your club!
-- Wait!
-- What!
-- Her door!
-- Ope?
-- See!
-- What?
-- Careful.
-- Who?
Live well! Iniivdluaritzas! Tone!
Cant ear! Her dorters ofe? Whofe? Her eskmeno daughters
hope? Whope? Ellme, elmme, elskmestoon! Soon!
Let us consider.
The procurator Interrogarius Mealterum presends us this
proposer.
Honuphrius is a concupiscent exservicemajor who makes
dishonest propositions to all. He is considered to have committed,
invoking droit d'oreiller, simple infidelities with Felicia, a virgin,
and to be practising for unnatural coits with Eugenius and
Jeremias, two or three philadelphians. Honophrius, Felicia, Eugenius
and Jeremias are consanguineous to the lowest degree. Anita
the wife of Honophrius, has been told by her tirewoman,
Fortissa, that Honuphrius has blasphemously confessed under
voluntary chastisement that he has instructed his slave, Mauritius, to
ur;,e Magravius, a commercial, emulous of Honuphrius, to solicit
the chastity of Anita. Anita is informed by some illegitimate
children of Fortissa with Mauritius (the supposition is Ware's)
that Gillia, the schismatical wife of Magravius, is visited
clandestinely by Barnabas, the advocate of Honuphrius, an immoral
person who has been corrupted by Jeremias. Gillia, (a cooler
blend, D'Alton insists) ex equo with Poppea, Arancita, Clara,

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