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Tom Styles or John a Styles, connected with John oʹ Noakes in actions of ejectment. These mythical gentlemen, like John Doe and Richard Roe, are no longer employed.
“And, like blind Fortune, with a sleight
Convey men’s interest and right
From Stiles’s pocket into Nokes’s.”
Butler: Hudibras, iii. 3.
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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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