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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

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John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
Librettist
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Barnstaple
Devon
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Comfortably
Thinking
Baggage
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Married
Mother
Together
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