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The verie best, and swetest liquor.

For as those, which serue in publik function do turn their learning to publik vse, which is the naturall vse of all learning: so such as liue to themselues either for pleasur in their studye, or to avoid foren truble do turn their learning to a priuate ease, which is the priuat abuse of a publik good. For the common weall is the measure of everie mans being, which if anie one respect not, he is not to liue in it.

—Richard Mulcaster, The First Part of the Elementarie, 1582.

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