The Country Wife
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The opening
SCENE I.
Gripe’s House, in the evening.
Enter Lady Flippant and Mrs. Joyner.
Lady Flip. Not a husband to be had for money!—Come, come, I might have been a better housewife for myself, as the world goes now, if I had dealt for an heir with his guardian, uncle, or mother-in-law; and you are no better than a chouse, a cheat.
Mrs. Joyn. I a cheat, madam!
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