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The (meager) evidence
The story gets partially revealed through Mrs Lovett's song "Poor Thing".
(Mrs Lovett)
There was a barber and his wife
And he was beautiful
A proper artist with a knife
But they transported him for life
And he was beautiful
(Mrs Lovett) Barker his name was, Benjamin Barker
(Sweeney) Transported? What was his ...
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An explanation given in the notes section of the book*:
How it was that he came by the name of Sweeney . . . there to look for it: the name is indeed an unusual one. The surname Todd or 'tod'
[sic], a northern word of unknown origin from Middle English, means,
literally, 'fox'; metaphorically it was used to refer to 'a person
likened to a fox; a ...
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