"gentle nor simple" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1820, Fanny Burney, Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an heiress - Volume 2, page 100:",
          "text": "Sir, cried the man, equally provoked, this is talking quite out of character ; for as to broken bones, there's ne'er a person in all England, gentle nor simple, can say he's a right to break mine, for I'm not a person of that sort, but a man of as good property as another man; and there's ne'er a customer I have in the world, that's more his own man than myself.",
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          "ref": "1884, Plutus Adonis, a mythical hero - Volume 2:",
          "text": "I'm forbid to let anybody in, gentle nor simple, if you please.",
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        "Of any social standing."
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        "(archaic, of a negated noun) Of any social standing."
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          "ref": "1888, Thomas Hardy, The Withered Arm:",
          "text": "The implements of his daily work, which was that of a jobbing gardener, stood in a corner, and seeing probably that she looked rural, he said, 'If you want me to undertake country work I can't come, for I never leave Casterbridge for gentle nor simple -- not I.\"",
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        "No one, regardless of social standing."
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        "(archaic) No one, regardless of social standing."
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          "text": "Sir, cried the man, equally provoked, this is talking quite out of character ; for as to broken bones, there's ne'er a person in all England, gentle nor simple, can say he's a right to break mine, for I'm not a person of that sort, but a man of as good property as another man; and there's ne'er a customer I have in the world, that's more his own man than myself.",
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        "Of any social standing."
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        "(archaic, of a negated noun) Of any social standing."
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