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Hà) Abercromby (ăb’erkrum/bi) (thi) Abernethy (ǎb/er-neAbinger (ǎb'in-jer) Abu-Bekr, or AbouBekr (ä'boo-běkr') Adair (a-dâr') Adanson (ä/don'SON') Adelung (a/deh-loong) Agassiz (ǎg/a-see a-gas'siz; Fr. pron. a/gas/se') Ahmed (äн/med), or Achmet (äk/met) Ainsworth (anz/worth) Akenside (a'ken-sid) Aladdin (a-laddin) Alaric (l'a-rik) (Lat. A-lar'i-cus) Alboin (ǎl/boin) Alboni (äl-bo/nee) Albuquerque (ǎl/bukerk; Port. pron. äl-boo-kĕrk/ or älboo-kĕr/ka) Alciati (äl-chä/tee) Alcuin (ǎl/kwin) Aldrich (awl/dritch or awl-drij)

Alembert (ä/lŎn/bêr'), or d'Alembert (dä/lŎn/bêr')

YON') André (Eng.) (ăn dra or ǎn/dri) Angelo (än'jā-lo). Angoulême (ŎN/goo/lem' or ŎN'goo/lam') Anquetil-Duperron (ŎN/keh-tel'du/pĕR'

pron.

rōN') An/stry-ther (popularly an'ster) Ar/a-go (Fr. ä/rä/go') Aram (a'ram) Ar/buth-not Ariosto (ǎr/i-os'to or ä-re-os/to) Arminius (ar-min/ĭ-ŭs) Arnaud (aR/nō') Arnauld (aR'nō') Arteveld (aR-ta-vĕlt'), or Artevelde (aR-tavěl/deh) Ar/un-del Ascham (ǎs/kam) Ashburnham burn-am) Ash/bur-ton, or Ash'

(ash

bur/ton

Atahualpa

(ä-tä

hwäl/pä)

Ath/el-stan

Aubigné (o'bên'ya')

bri)

Alfieri (äl-fe-a/ree) Aubrey (Eng.) (aw/

Alford (awl'ford) [tee)

Algarotti (al-gä-rot- Auchmuty (ä/mu-ty)
[ree) Au'du-bon (Fr. pron.

Alighieri (ä-le-ge-a/- ō'dü/boN')

Augustine (Saint)
(sent aw/gus-tin)
Aurungzebe (ō'rung-
zāb/ or aw'rung-
zeeb')

Bagehot (baj/ut)
Baillie (ba/lee)
Bailly (Fr.) (bā/le
bǎ/ye')
Bajazet (băj'a-zět)
Balboa (bäl-bo/ä)
Balfour (bal/fur;

Bede (beed)

dělí)

Bedell (Eng.) (bee/del

or be-děl') Beethoven (bā/tō-ven) Behn (běu)

or

in Behring

(bar/ba

Scot. bal-foor') Ballou (bal-loo') Balzac (bäl/zäk') Barbarossa ros'sa) Barbauld (Eng.) (bar/bawld or bar-bō')

Barbour (bar/bur)

Barère (bä/rêR')

Baretti (bä-ret/tee) Barham (bar/am) Baring (Eng.) (bâr/ing)

Barras (bä/rä')

(beer/ing;

Danish pron. bā'ring)

Belknap (běl'nǎp)

Bellamy (Eng.) (běl/la-mi) Bellen-den

Bellini (běl-lee/nee)

Bel'sham

Belzoni (běl-zo/nee)

Ben/bow

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[nee)

Barrère (bä/rêR'). See Benvenuti
Barère.
Barth (bart)
Barthélemy (bar/tal'-
me' or bar/ta/leh-

me')
Bartolini (bar-to-lee-
Bath/first
Bauer (bow'er)
Baumgarten (bowm/-
gär-ten)

Bayard (ba/ard or bi-
ard; Fr. pron. bä/-
yaR')
Beatrice (be/a-treess;
It. pron. ba-a-tree-
cha)
Beattie (bee/ti; Scotch
pron. bā'ti)
Beauchamp

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Berkeley (formerly bark/ly) Bernadotte (ber-nadot' or bĕr'nä/dot') Bernard (Fr. pron. běr när') Berzelius

(bĕr-zee/lĭ

us; Sw. pron. bĕrzii/le-us) Bescherelle (běsh/rěl') Beth'am

Bethune (beh-thoon')
Bewick (bū/ik)
Be/za

Bilderdijk, or Bilderdyk
(bil'der-dik')
Billaud-Varennes (be/-

yō'-vä/rĕnn')

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Alton (Eng.) (awl/ton)

Blomfield (blum/feeld) Blount (blunt)

Alvarez (Sp.) (äl/värĕth)

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Blücher

(bloo/ker;

Ayeshah (a/e-sha)

Alsop (awl'sop)

Averroes (a-ver/ro-és Beaufort (Eng.) (bō-
or äv-er-ro'ĕs)

Avicenna (äve-sen'- Beaufort (Fr.) (bō'

Biot (be'o' or be'ot')
Bligh (bli)
Blizard

Beauharnais (bō'äR/- Ger. pron. blü/ker)

dg, wolf, too, took; ûrn, rye, pull; c, ġ, soft; €, g, hard; aş; exist; n as ng; this (see p. 361).

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Bossuet (bos/sü-ä', al

most bos/sw')

Bossu (bo'sü')
Bossut (bo'sü')
Bos/well

Both/well

Botzaris. See Bozzaris. Boucher (Eng.) (bowcher)

Boucher (Fr.) (boo/sha')

Boudinot (boo'de-not)

Bougainville

an; often mispro

Calidasa (kä-le-dä/să)
Call/cott
Cal/met (Fr. pron.
käl'ma')

Calvert (Eng.) (kal'-
vert)
[vert)
Calvert (Amer.) (kol-
Cambacérés (kon/ba/-
sâ'rĕs')
Cam/er-on
Ca-mo'ens (or kam/-
Campbell (kǎm/el)

[o-ens)

Da Some families of this name call themselves kăm/bel. Canova (kä-no/vä) Canrobert

Cantemir, or Kantemir

bêR')

(kan teh-meer

kän'tě-meer')

Canute (ka-nut/)

Căpel

Chil'per-ic Chisholm (chiz/om) Chlopicki (klo-pit/skee) Cholmondely (chum'li) Cimabue (che-mä-boo/芤) [sä) Cimarosa (che-mä-ro'Cinq Mars mars') Claverhouse (klav'eris or klaviers) Clotaire (klo têR') Clough (klŭf) Clo/vis

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Cochrane (kok/ran) Cockburn (ko/burn) Cœur de Lion (kur de li/on)

(kŎN'ro'

Coke (kook or kōk)

or

Colbert (kol/bêr')

Cōl/by

Co-len/so

Coleridge (kōl/rij)

roo')

Ca/pet (Fr. pron. kä-
på')
Carew (generally ka-
Carlisle (kar-lil')
Carlyle (kar/lil or kar-
lil')
Carmichael (kar-mi-
kel or kar mi-kel)
Carteret (kar/ter-et)
Casaubon (ka-saw/bon)
Casimir (kas/e-meer)
Cassini (käs-see/nee)
Castlereagh (kas/sl-ra')

Căv/en-dish

nounced bu-kan/an) Cavaignac (kä/věn/Buffon (buf/fon.or yäk') büf/fon') Bulwer (bool/wer) Bunsen (boon'sen) Buonarotti (boo-o'närot'tee) Burckhardt

(bûrk/

hart; Ger. pron. booRk/härt)

Bur-dett/

Bourbon (boor/bon); Bussy d'Amboise

Cecil (ses'il or sis/il) Cellini (chěl-lee/nee) Cenci (chen/chee) Centlivre (sent-lee/ver or sent-liv/er) Cervantes Saavedra (ser-vǎn'těz sä-věd'

ra) Chalmers (chal/merz; Scot. pron. chaw/merz)

Chamisso (shä/me/so') Champollion (shampol/le-on, or shoN'pol/le-ON') Charlemagne (shar/lemān'; Fr. shaRl'män')

pron.

Châteaubriand (shä/

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Burlamaqui (bür/lämä/ke')

Fr. pron. book/bON')

(bü/se/don/bwäz')

Bourdaloue (boor/dä/

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Cheyne (chan or chin) Childebert (chil'deChil'der-ic [bert)

Bourrienne (boo/re- Căb/ot

Bouterwek (boo'ter- Ca-do'gan

wěk)

to/bre/ŎN') Chatham (chat/am) Chauncey (chân sĩ or chawn'sĬ) Cherubini (ka-roobee/nee) Chěs/el-den

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MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

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D'Ewes (düz)

Diderot (ded/ro'

de/deh-ro')

d'Estaing (děs/tăn′) Este (ěs'te or ĕs/tà) Esterhazy, or Eszterházy (es'ter-hä/ze) Etienne (a'te-ěnn') Euler (yoo'ler; pron. oi'ler) Ewart (yoo/art) Ewing (yoo/ing) Eyre (ar)

F.

Ger.

or Fabyan, or Fabian (fa/bi-an) (hit) Fahrenheit (făr'enFalconer (fawk'ner or faw/ken-er) Falkland (fawk/land) Faneuil (fun/il) Faraday (făr'a-dā) Farnese (far-neez'; It. pron. far-na'să) Farquhar (far/kwar or far/kär) Fatima (fä/te-mä fǎt/e-ma) Faust (fowst or fawst) Fénelon (fen/eh-lon; Fr. pron. fan loN' or fa/neh-loN')

Didot (de/do') Diez (deets) Disraeli (diz-ra/el-ee) Domenichino (do-mane-kee/no) Donizetti (don'e-zet'tee or do-nid-zet/tee) Don'o-van Douce (Eng.) (dowss) Drouyn de Lhuys (droo'ǎn' deh lwee) Ducange (du-kănj; French pron. du/kŎNzh')

Duchesne (dü/shân')

Duclos (du/klo')

Dudevant

or

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Gillespie (gil-les/pi)

See

Gil/man

Gil'more

Foulques (fook)
Fouqué (foo/ka').
La Motte-Fouqué.
Fourcroy (fooR/krwä')
Fourier (foo/re-er; Fr.
pron. foo/re-')
Francia (South Am.)
(frän/se-ä)
Freiligrath (frile-grät/)
Frelinghuysen (free-
ling-hi/zen)
Frémont, or Fremont
(Am.) (fre-mont')
Frŏb/ish-er
Froila (fro/I-lä)
Froissart (frois'särt';
Fr. pron. frwä/säR')
Froude (frood)
Fulton (fool'ton)
Fuseli (fu/se-li)

G.

[nee)

Gainsborough (gans'b'rg) Galignani (gä-lên-yäGalileo (gal/i-lee'o; It. pron. gä-le-la/o) Galla-tin Găl/lâu-det Galt (gawlt) Galvani (gäl-vä/nee) Garcilasso (or Garcilaso) de la Vega (gar-the-läs/so, gar-se-las'so, dã lä vā'gä) Gardiner (gard'ner) Garibaldi (găr-f-bal/di or gä-re-bäl'dee) Gascoygne, or Gascoigne (gás-koin') Gasparin (gas/pa-rin or gäs/pä/rǎN' Gǎv'es-ton

or

Fingal (fing/gal or Gay-Lussac (ga'lüs'

(dü'deh

Fichte (fik/teh)

VŎN' or düd/vŎN')

Dumas (dy/mä')

fing-gawl')

Dumont (di môn)

Dun-bar/

Duncan (dunk'an) Dundas (dun-dass') Dupont (Amer.) (dupont') Durand (Amer.) (durand') Dürer (du'rer or dü'rer) Duyckinck (di/kink) Dyche (dich or dĭtch)

E.

Echard (Eng.) (ětch'ard)

Egerton (ěj'er-ton)

Elgin (ěl'ğin)

Firdousi, or Firdausi

(fir-dow'see) Flotow (flo/to) Foix (fwä) Fontaine (fŏn-tan'; Fr. pron. fôn'tên') Fontenelle (fon-tchnel'; Fr. pron. font/nel') Forbes (Eng.) (fôrbz) Forbes (Scot.) (fôr/bez) Fordyce (for-dis') Forsyth (for-sith') Fortescue (fôr/tes-ku) Fosbroke (fos/brook) Foscolo (fos/ko-lo) Fothergill (foth'er-gil) Fouché (foo'sha') Foulis (fow/lis; Scot. pron. fowlz)

Gil/pin
Giotto (jot/to)
Girard (Am.) (ję-rard')
Gisborne

[gr)

Glauber (glaw/ber or
glou/ber)
Gleig (gleg)
Glendower (glen/dou-
Glover (gluv'er)
Go-dol/phin
Goethe. See Göthe.
Goldoni (gol-do'nee)
Gonzalo (gon-thä/lo).
Görgei, or Gorgey (göR/-
ga; Ger. pron. gör'-
Gi)

Gortchakov, or Gorts-
chakow (gor/chä-

kof)

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or

Gell (jel)
Genet (jeh-net/
zh'na)
Gengis Khan, or Jen-
gis Khan (jeng/gis
kän or kǎn)
Genlis (zhŎN'le')
Genseric (jen'ser-ik)
Geoffroy (Eng.) (jef-
fri)

Gerard (Eng.) (jěr'ard)
Gerry (ğĕr'ri)
Gessler (gess'ler)
Gib/bon

Gibbs

Gib/son

beRG/ or goo/tenberg) Guthrie (guth'ri) Guyon (gion or gelGuyot (ge'o')

H.

Hafiz (hä/fiz)

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Gifford (gif'ford and
jif'ford)
Gilbert (Eng.) (gil-
Gilchrist (gil/krist)
Gil-fil/lan

hen/del) [kurt) Harcourt (Eng.) (har/Hardicanute (har'deka-nut') Hardinge (är/ding)

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MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Haroun al-Raschid (hä-roon'äl-rash/id) Hauy (hä/we')

Havelock (hav'eh-lok) Haydn (ha'dn; Ger. pron. hi'dn)

Haynau (hi'now)
Hearne (hern)

Heeren (ha'ren)

Hegel (ha'gel)

Heine (hi'neh)

Heintzelman (hint'selman)

[us)

Helvetius (hěl-vee/shiHěm/ang

Hengist (heng/gist) Herbelot (ĕRb/lo' or

êR/beh-lo')

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Legaré (Amer.) (lehgree')

dark') [zhwǎn/vel') Lavater (lä-vä/ter or Joinville (join/vil or lä/vä/têR') Jomini (zho/me/ne') Lavoisier (lä/vwä/ze-â') Joubert (zhoo/ber') Layard (la/ard) Jouffroy (zhoof/frwä') Jourdain (zhoor/dǎN') Jowett (jō'et) Juarez (HOO-ä/res or Hwä/rĕth) Junot (zhü'no') Jussieu (jus/sú'; pron. zhu/se-uh')

K.

Herder (her'der

or Kantemir

hĕr/der)

meer)

Herrera (ĕR-Rā/rä)

Herschel (her'shel)

Heylin (ha/lin)

Heyne (hi'neh)
Heyse (hi'zeh)

Hoefer (Ger. pron. ho-
fer; Fr. o'fêR')
Hogarth (hoʻgarth)
Holbein (hol/bin)
Holinshed, or Hollyn-
shed (hol/inz-hĕd)
Holmes (hōmz)
Houdon (oo/don')
Houghton (ho/ton)
Houston (popularly
pronounced hu'ston)
Hovey (hŭv/i)
Huger (Am.) (ū-jee)
Hughes (hūz)
Humboldt (hăm/bolt;
Ger. pron. hoom'-

Hus/kis-son

[bolt)

Huss, or Hus (huss; Ger. pron. hooss)

Fr.

Legendre (leh-zhŎnd'r'
or lěh-jen/der)
Leibnitz, or Leibniz
(līb/nits)
Leigh (lee)
Leighton (la'ton)
Lempriere (lem/pri-er
or lem-preer')

Le Sage, or Lesage
(leh-säzh')

(kän'te- L'Estrange (lès-tranj') Le/ver

Leverrier (leh-věr'rĭer or leh-va're-à')

Lewes (lu'is)

Liddell (lid/del)
Lieber (lee/ber)
Liebig (lee/big)
Lingard (ling/gard)
Linnæus (lin-nee/us)
Linnell (lin/nel)
Liszt (list)
Lloyd (loid) [va/gä)
Lope de Vega (lo/på da
Lopez (lo/pěs or lo/-
[lo-têR')

Kavanagh (kav'a-nä' or kav/a-näи') Kearney (kar'ní) Keble (kěb/l) Keightly (kit/lee) Kneller (nel'ler; Ger. pron. kneller) Knolles (nōlz); written also Knollys (nōlz) Knowles (nōlz) Körner, or Koerner (köR/ner) [ko) Kosciusko (kos-si-us/- pěth) Kossuth (kosh'shoot') Kotzebue (kot/sehbū; Ger. pron. kôt/seh-boo) Krummacher (kroom'mäk-er)

L.

Huyghens (hi/genz or Lacépède (lä'sâ/pěd')

hoi'genz)

Hyder Ali (hi'der ä-Laennec (län'nek')

I.

[lee) Lacroix (lä/krwä')

Ladislas (lád/is-las); written also Lad'isla'us.

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Lothaire (lo-ther or
Loudon (lou/don)
Louis (loo'is; Fr. pron.
loo'e')
Lowth (louth)
Loyola (loi-o'la or lo-
Lyf'ord
[yo'lä)

M.

Mac-běth/

Syn.

Macchiavelli (mäk-ke-
ä-vel/lee).
Machiavel.
Mac Culloch (ma-kŭl/-
lah)
[Văn)
MacIlvaine (mǎk'il-
Mackay (ma-ka' and
ma-ki')
Mack/in-tosh
Mack/lin
Mac-lau/rin
Maclean (mak-lān')
Macleod (ma-klowd')
Maclin (ma-klin')
Maclise (ma-kleez')
Macomb (ma-komb')
Macready (ma-kree/di)
Mad'oc
Magellan (ma-jellan;
Sp. pron. mä-Hel-
yän')
Maginn (ma-gin')

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(mar'ti-nō) Masaniello (mä-sä-neMas'sa-soit [el/lo) Masséna (mäs-sa/nä; Fr. pron. mä'sâ'nä') Massillon (mǎs/sil-lon or mäs/se/yON') Massinger (mås/sin-jer) Mather (math/er) Maturin (mat/yoo-rin) Maunder (mawn/der) Maupertuis (mō'pèr'twe')

Maurepas (mōR/pä') Maury (Am.) (maw'ri and măr/ri) Maury (Fr.) (mō're') Mazarin (măz/a-reen'; Fr. pron. rǎN')

mä/zä/

Mazzini (mät-see/nee or må-zee/nee) Meagher (ma'er)

Medici (med'e-chee)

Médicis (ma/de/sess' or med'e-sis) Meigs (měgz)

Melanchthon (melănk/thọn) (son) Mendelssohn (men/delMendoza (men-doʻza; Sp. pron. měn-dothä) Metastasio (met/a-stä še-o or ma-tä/-stäše-o)

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BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

N.

Napier (na/pe-er)
Narvaez (nar-vä/eth)
Něck'er (Fr. pron.
něk kêr')

Ney (nā)
Niebuhr (nee/boor)
Noailles (no/al' or no-
Xy")

Nos/tra-da'mus
Novalis (no-vä/lĭs)

(mir/a-bo'

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Plantagenet tăj/e-net)

(plan

Pleyel (pli'el); or
Pley! (plil)
Po'ca-hon'tas
Po/cocke
Poin-sett'
Polk (polk or pōk)
Pombal (pom-bäl')
Pompadour (pom/pa-
door' or poм/pä-
door')

Ponce de Leon (pōn'-
tha dã là-ōn')
Poniatowski (po-ne-ä-
tov/ske)
Porteus (pōr/te-us)
Poussin (poo'sǎN')
Powell (pou/el)
Pow/hat-tăn
Praed (prād)
Prichard (pritch'ard)
Prideaux (prid'o and
prĭd'ux)
Priessnitz (preess/nits)
Pughe (pu)
Pugin (pū/jin)
Pulaski (pū-lǎs/kee;
Pol. pron. poo-läs-
kee)
Pulci (pool/chee)
Pulteney (pult/nĬ)
Pusey (pu/zi)
Q.

Quarles (kwärlz)
Quevedo (ka-vã'DO)
Quincy (kwin/si
kwin/zi)

R.

or

Rabelais (rä'beh-la' or
räb/la')
Rachel (Fr.) (rä/shel')
Racine (rä/sen' or răs-
seen')

Raffaelle_(räf-fä-el/la)
Syn. Raphael.
Raleigh (raw/lĭ)
Ranke (ränk/eh)
Raphael (ra/fa-el or
răf'fa-el) [pǎN)
Rapin (rap/In or ra-
Réaumur (ra/ō'müR' or
rō'mur) [brant)
Rembrandt (rem
Renan (reh-nŎN')
Ren/nell
Reuchlin (roik/lin)
Reynolds (ren/oldz)
Riccio (rêt/cho)
Richelieu (rêsh/eh-loo;
Fr. pron. rêsh/le-uh')
Richter (rik'ter)
Rienzi (re-en/zee), or
Rienzo (re-en/zo)

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Rives (Amer.) (reevz) Rizzio (rêt/se-o or rit/se-o)

Robespierre (ro'bespeer or rob/es-pe[ShŎN/bō')

ĕr') Rochambeau (ro/Rochefoucauld (rosh/foo-kō or rosh'foo'kō') [zha') Roget (ro/zha or ro'Romilly (Eng.) (rom/il-Ĭ) Ronge (rong/eh) Rosecrans (roz/krǎnts) Rothschild (ros/child; Ger. pron. rot/shilt) Rousseau (roo'sō') Routledge (rut/lij) Rowe (ro)

Rowley (rou'lĭ) Rutgers (rut/gers) Rutherford (ruth'erford)

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peer or sǎn'pe-ĈR') Saint-Simon (sent-simọn or săn/se/môn) Saladin (săl'a-din) Sand (Fr.) (SON) Săn dğs (or săndz) Saunderson (sän/derson)

Saussure (sō'sür' or So'sÜR')

[il)

Savile, or Saville (sav/-
Savonarola (sä-vo-nä-
ro/lä)
Scaliger (skal/i-jer)
Schelling (shel/ling)
Schenck (skenk)
Schiller (shil'ler)
Schlegel (shla/gel or
shla/Gel)
Schleiermacher (shli'-
er-mäk'er)
Schmidt (shmit)
Schuyler (skiler)
Scoresby (skörz/bi)
Scougal (skoo/gal)
Scribe (skreb)
Sepulveda (sa-pool/vä-
Ser-ve/tus
Sévigné (să-veen'ya or
sa/vên/ya')
Seward (su/ard)
Seymour (see'mer)
Shakespeare;

[dä)

writ

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