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Would the wool have a different texture then?
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So, what's slipe? Sounds like a looking glass word...
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Years since I saw the play, Dr Bill, but I seem to remember that the plot hangs on the inability of a young man to talk coherently to young ladies of his own class, whilst being perfectly at home in talking to lower-class females - particularly ladies of the streets and barmaids. The "Classy Lady" who is setting out to marry him pretends to be such a low character in order to woo him (rather, to enable him to woo her!) - therefore, I guess, the meaning of "stoop" in this instance is, "to lower oneself" (But not in the sense of a female bending down to gather the fruit of the horse-chectnut!) 
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There is a definition of romance: A man chasing a woman until she catches him. I wondered if the heroine was a predator who dove like a hawk to capture a poor defenseless male.
To put it in simplest terms, she used a subterfuge to induce male to declare his love for her where the eavesdropping fathers could overhear, and complete arranged marriage negotiations.
Incidentally, I found the play in Bartleby. Click on "titles".
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I wrote to someone that I had cooked "up a storm" the other day.Ah, yes, you're the fourth witch, aren't you?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I think it was Martial, jo. Dr. Fell gave one of his students Martial's ode to translate as an unseen in an oral exam. "I do not love thee Dr. Fell ..." was the result.
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