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The charms that heIped to catch the husband are generally laid by, one after another, till the lady grows a downright wife, and then runs crying to her mother, because she has transformed her lover into a downright, husband.
Source: Villers in The Belle's Strategem, Act V, Sc. I.
-- Hannah Cowley, (NA 1743-1809), English playwright; She is best known for Who's the Dupe?, 1779 and The Belle's Strategem, 1780s.