Brewer's: Copy

That's a mere copy of your countenance. Not your real wish or meaning, but merely one you choose to present to me.

Copy
is a printer's term both for original MS. and printed matter that is to be set up in type.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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