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  •    Be courtly ay in clething and costlyarrayit, That hurtis yow nought worth a hen; yowr husband pays for all.

    - Alexandre, pe'  re Dumas
    early 16c The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, l.268^9.

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