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A country girl. (Virgil: Eclogues, iii. and v.)
“Country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.”
Milton: LʹAllegro.
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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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