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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Clerkly.
 
Cleverly; like a scholar.   1
       
“I thank you, gentle servant: ’tis very clerkly done.”
       
Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1.
 


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