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That’s a mere copy of your countenance. Not your real wish or meaning, but merely one you choose to present to me.
Copy is a printer’s term both for original MS. and printed matter that is to be set up in type.
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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.