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Excerpt from Shakespeare and Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Chronicle of the Time
The paragon of all patience thought he should hear of something to his advantage if his enemy would write a book. Book-making in all forms has been a serious undertaking at all times - never more so than at present; but I am in this work free from many of the anxieties of authorship. I have not written a book: this is only a compilation. The confession will strike the intelligent reader, who may have dipped into these pages before glancing at the preface, as less necessary than that of the very old master who, having painted a model specimen of the feline tribe, attached the celebrated inscription This 18 a cat.
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