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[ It is to be regretted that a word, used in the days of Charles II. and still intelligible in our times, should have become obsolete; viz. the feminine for intriguer—an intriguess. See the Life of Lord Keeper North, whose biographer, in speaking of Lord Keeper Bridgeman, says, “And what was worst of all, his family was no way fit for that place (of Chancellor), his lady being a most violent INTRIGUESS in business.”
Had Mr. Walsingham lived in Ireland, even there he might have found in the dialect of the lower Irish both a substantive and a verb, which would have expressed his idea. The editor once described an individual of the Beaumont species to an Irish labourer, and asked what he would call such a person—“I’d call her a policizer—I would say she was fond of policizing.”]
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[ Life of Admiral Roddam, Monthly Magazine.]
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[ This reminds us of an expression of Charles the Second—“It is very strange, that every one of my friends keeps a tame knave”—Note by the Editor.]
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[ Young wild ducks.]