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two most famous universities, Poultry and Wood-street] i. e. the Counter prisons in the Poultry and Wood-street. The same piece of wit occurs in our author’s Michaelmas Term and in his Roaring Girl. So also in Fennor’s Compter’s Commonwealth, 1617; “But before I was matriculated in one of these city universities,” &c. p. 4: and in Jordan’s Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, &c. 1657, where Wildblood, when brought into Wood-street Counter, says, “I have commenced in this college before now,” act iv. sc. 1.