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cunning (the sense of ‘underhand craft’ is freq.)
1. knowledge Troil. V. v. 41, Cor. IV. i. 9, Tim. V. iv. 28, Oth. III. iii. 49.
2. skill, ability Shr. Ind. i. 92, H5 V. ii. 149 “I have no in protestation,” Rom. II. ii. 101, Ham. IV. vii. 155, Ant. II. iii. 34.
3. profession Tim. IV. iii. 210 “By putting on the of a carper.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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