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Having flown over many knavish professions, he settled only in rogue.

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Looks like gibberish to you? Here's what it all means:
He's such a bad man he could have had his pick of all the disreputable professions there are, but decided to just be a general thief and swindler.

Fancy reading more like that? It's from:
The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3

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