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Dogberry

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Dogberry
constable who garbles every phrase he speaks. [Br. Drama: Benét, 277]

Dogberry
officious, inept constable. [Br. Lit.: Much Ado About Nothing]

Dogberry
ostentatiously and fastidiously examines prisoners. [Br. Lit.: Much Ado About Nothing]


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As I cannot, like Dogberry, find it in my heart to bestow all my tediousness upon the reader, I will not go on to bore him with a minute detail of all the discoveries and proceedings of this and the following day.
 
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