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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!
     &mdash; Wait! 
     &mdash; What! 
     &mdash; Her door! 
     &mdash; Ope? 
     &mdash; See! 
     &mdash; What? 
     &mdash; Careful. 
     &mdash; 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 pro- 
 poser.
     [[Honuphrius is a concupiscent exservicemajor]] who makes dis- 
 honest propositions to all. He is considered to have committed,
 invoking <I>[[droit d'oreiller]],</I> simple infidelities with Felicia, a virgin,
 and to be practising for unnatural coits with Eugenius and Jere-
 mias, 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, For-
 tissa, that Honuphrius has blasphemously confessed under volun-
 tary chastisement that he has instructed his slave, Mauritius, to
 urge 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 clandes-
 tinely by Barnabas, the advocate of Honuphrius, an immoral
 person who has been corrupted by Jeremias. Gillia, (a cooler
 blend, D'Alton insists) <I>ex equo</I> with [[rainbow|Poppea, Arancita, Clara]],