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(9) Clem's rebuke to Roughman, "But if you want any money, speak in time, for if I once turn courtier again, I will scorn my poor friends, look scurvily upon my acquaintance, borrow of all men, be beholding to any man, and acknowledge no man; and my motto shall be Base is the man that pays" (II, 5.3.60-64), could be viewed as disloyalty, yet Clem's faithful service to Goodman, Spencer, and Bess suggests that this surly comment is not general treason.

Having witnessed the above exchange between the Merrythoughts, Nell disapproves of Merrythought's treatment of his wife: 'he's an ingrant old man to use his bedfellow so scurvily' (3.530-1).

With poor Darren Clarke looking fed up with golf which again treated him scurvily on Sunday, Phil Mickelson has to be oddson against the Ulsterman and Japanese journeyman Yasuhuru Imano, a good player but surely out of his league here, but you can get evens with Betfred.

Yet--still the rapturous reviews, when books of mine, with all the work that goes into them, the originality, and literary quality, are scurvily reviewed, if at all'.

Under private ownership, the miners were scurvily treated.