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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Yeoman, Fairness
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.