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We find, too, that he uses law-terms in general with frequency notably greater in an excess of three or four to one than any of the other playwrights of his day, when so many playwrights were or had been Noverints or of the Inns of Court; that this excess is not observable with regard to his use of the vocabulary peculiar to any other occupation or profession, even that of the actor, which we know that he practised for many years; but that, on the contrary, although he uses other technical language correctly, he avails himself of that of any single art of occupation with great rarity, and only upon special occasions.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859