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Show "These Presents." Many pcoplo if asked tho moaning of tho word "presents" In tho phraso "by theso presents" would bo entirely tinablo to glvo It. It means "these present words," or "this present document." docu-ment." It was familiar enough formerly. for-merly. In "Ijvo's Labour's Lost" tho king usks Joriuenotta, "What prosent hast thou thoro?" tho "present" bo-lng bo-lng a letter. Hncon writes that Hamulus Hamu-lus after his death was said to have sent a "present" to tho Koman pooplo bidding them tlovoto themsolvcs to arms. Shnkcspearo oven uses "present" "pres-ent" to mean money In hand. |