English as She is Spoke

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2.The few, few will make her nest. ? Make your own bed?
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I can't figure that out. But that first one sounds good to me as well.

#11 and #13 are not as Lamboracer and Omnis, respectively, suggested. I can guarantee you that. đź‘Ť
 
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You mean like that? ;)
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Whoops...you guys were knocking 'em off so quickly for a while I couldn't keep up...(fixed)

If anyone didn't get theirs entered let me know.
 
skip0110
Whoops...you guys were knocking 'em off so quickly for a while I couldn't keep up...(fixed)

If anyone didn't get theirs entered let me know.
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No prob, you'd be surprised how many just click in your head while you're working on something else.
 
Not a possible solution/answer, but possibly a clue...

From here: "The phrases cry crauch and "cry cok" in line 248 refer to cries of submission as a defeated party admits his defeat."

So, perhaps to "Crauch the marmoset" is to admit defeat or something similar?
 
skip0110
Its are some blu stories.
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Blu (blue, presumably) = Something that should be done in private, only to be concerned with about in dark corners. See phrases like "blue movies" and "blue laws". So "blu stories" might mean stories, rumors, gossip.

Thus: These are some rumors.
Or: This is gossip.

Which like Bertram, love hir dog.
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Hir = her (I suppose)

This is just a wild guess, but if you move in with a woman (I suppose at the time, you didn't do so unless you were married), you're going to have to put up with her [sic] pets (and pet peeves).

Google-ing, "Bertram" and dogs pulled up Jane Austen, a prolific writer of the time and wrote a story called Mansfield Park about a Lady Bertram and her lap dog.

Try this link » http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol25no1/palmer.html

Burn the politeness.
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Easy; no need for politeness...seems to make sence to me.
 
pupik
This is just a wild guess, but if you move in with a woman (I suppose at the time, you didn't do so unless you were married), you're going to have to put up with her [sic] pets (and pet peeves).

Google-ing, "Bertram" and dogs pulled up Jane Austen, a prolific writer of the time and wrote a story called Mansfield Park about a Lady Bertram and her lap dog.

Try this link » http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol25no1/palmer.html
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Could it be an idiom essentially meaning "best friend", since it seems like this was the relationship between Bertram and her dog?
 
"He turns as a weath turcocl."
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The site in the first post doesn't seem to have the whole pamphlet. So, you can read the rest of it over here. With introduction by Mark Twain, who also thought it was pretty neat.
 

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