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A tame, foolish keeper. The character is in Dryden’s comedy of Limberham, or the Kind Keeper, and is supposed to satirise the Duke of Lauderdale.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.