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No. 45. The celebrated number of Wilkes’s North Britain, in which the Cabinet Ministers are accused of putting a lie into the king’s mouth.
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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.