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Excuses, tricks, artifices. (Saxon.)
“Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
They have travelled all the night? Mere fetches.”
Shakespeare: King Lear, ii. 4.
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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.
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