Wives enlist bairns as the mute advocates of their pro-
jection; as barren ones, cats.

     In  fact,  wife’s  between-manly*  genius  would be-man
enlistable animates and inanimates ylike.†

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  * Manly: human; see, "The ilke  three  waies  of
liues..whiche..arne by names cleped, bestialliche,
resonabliche, [and manlich. Resonablich] is vertu-
ous. Manlich is worldlich." Usk’s Test, c. 1385.
  † Ylike: likewise (< G. gleich).