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Bring me back to
those scriveners, if you please; do not get together those men who when with a
little money scraped together from the presents of spendthrifts and the gratuities
to actors, they have bought themselves a place in some decury, 1 think that
they have mounted from the first class of hissed buffoons into the second class of
the citizens. Those scriveners I will have as arbitrators in this business between
you and me, men who are indignant that those other fellows should be scriveners at
ale Although, when we see that there are many unfit men in that order, an order
which is held out as a reward for industry and good conduct, are we to wonder that
there are some base men in that order also, a place in which any one can purchase
for money?
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