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Saint Nicholas' clerk
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Saint Nicholas' clerk (複数形 Saint Nicholas' clerks)
- (obsolete) A highwayman.
- 1635, Glapthorne, Henry, The Hollander[3], act 3, scene 1:
Next it is decreed, that the receivers of our rents and customes, to wit divers Rookes, and Saint Nicholas Clearkes shall certainely use no more slights to get more then they can clearely come off with, under penalty of being carried up Hol∣borne in a cart, and at Tiburne executed, which may tend to the dissolution of our whole fraternity. - 1662, Wilson, John, The Cheats[4], published in The Dramatic Works of John Wilson, Edinburgh: William Paterson, published 1874, act 1, scene 1, page 18:
I was t'other night upon the randan, and who should I meet with but our old gang, some of St. Nicholas' clerks?
- 1635, Glapthorne, Henry, The Hollander[3], act 3, scene 1:
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参照
- Farmer, John Stephen (1902) Slang and Its Analogues[5], volume 5, pages 35–36
- Hemingway, Samuel Burdett, ed. (1936) Henry V (A New Varioum Edition of Shakespeare), volume 21, Classic Books Company, published 2001, →ISBN, footnote, pages 94–95
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