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Applied to Henry I., who had clerk-like accomplishments, very rare in the times in which he lived (1068, 1100–1135).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.