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112 will drive him away and kill him; but if he write well, I will adopt him as my son, for I never saw so intelligent and well-mannered an ape; and would God my son had his sense and good breeding!” So I took the pen and dipping it in the inkhorn, wrote in an epistolary hand the following verses:

Then I wrote the following in a running hand:

And in an engrossing hand the following:

And in a transcribing hand the following:

And in a large formal hand the following:

And in a court hand the following: