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INTRODUCTION
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Hold—say not so, good master Hermes;
Let the man rest in peace where now he lies,
He is no longer of our world, but yours.”

Here surely we have a trait of magnanimity on the author’s part as admirable in its way as the wit and boldness of his former attacks had been in theirs.