human
Yet this may be questioned. In Molière's G. Dandin (iii. 14), the maid says to her mistress, of whose virtue she is the maintainer, _pauvre mouton!_ so that both in French and English _mutton_, i.e. sheep, ewe, may have been, like _lamb_, a term of endearment.
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There's another goodly _mutton_ going
human
A fine _lac'd mutton_ Or two; and either has her frisking husband, That reads her the Corranto every week.
gpt
and her
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where, by the way, we must pronounce