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.—The only begetter. Boswell remarks: "The begetter is merely the person who gets or procures a thing. So in Dekker's Satiromastix: 'I have some cousin-germans at court shall beget you the reversion of the master of the king's revels.' W. H. was probably one of the friends to whom Shakespeare's 'sugred sonnets,' as they are termed by Meres, had been communicated, and who furnished the printer with