The main character in Wycherley's The Country Wife
a. is allowed access to married women with their husbands' permission.
b. hides under the beds of married women until their husbands go off to work.
c. pretends to married women that he is now in holy orders and is willing to hear their confessions.
d. drinks his employer's wine and blames his employer's wife.
e. hides a man's wife in a laundry basket.
a
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