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  • It is not long since that a subtile deluder, verie craftely having upon set purpose his brokers or espials abroade, using sundry secret drifts to allure many, as did the syrens by their sweet sonets and melody seduce mariners to make them their pray, so did his brokers or espials deceive many, in proclayming and sounding out his fame abroade from house to house, as those use which crye, "Mistresse, have you any worke for the tincker?"

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • "The Tincker of Torvey: a scholler, a cobler, a tincker, a smith; with

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

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