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DRAMATISTS > poet, essayist, playwright > Joseph Addison
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Source: Spectator, no. 507 (London), 11 Oct 1712. -- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).