ClerkA scholar. Hence, beau-clerc. (See above, Clerical Titles .) All the clerks, I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms, Have their free voices. Shakespeare: Henry VIII., ii. 2.
“I think there came prancing down the hill a couple of St. Nicholas's clerks.” —Rowley: Match at Midnight, 1633. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Clerk from Infoplease:
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