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An honest exceeding poor man.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 2

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Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Servant

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Find them out whose names are written here! It is
written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned.—In good time.

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