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Cleverly; like a scholar.
“I thank you, gentle servant: ʹtis very clerkly done.”
Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1.
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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.
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