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But, as for your Wife, who appears to me, to be no better than a Wag-tail, never take the
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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Wag-tail_ in _Channel Row_, wou'd have left it to my Generosity; Mrs. _Tippet_ the Furrier's Wife in _Walbrook_ wou'd have taken five hundred
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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Yes, honest Rogue, -- Oh the witty Wag-tail, -- I have a part to play too, that shall confirm it -- young Gentlewoman.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
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