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WE all know what gui s'excuse really does, so I shall not say much as to further reappearances after a certain leave-taking. It is true that then I was honestly referring only to appearance in panoply Histories of Literature of the kind I had been writing for more than thirty years in nearly or quite half that number of volumes. These I have never attempted since, and am not likely ever to attempt - indeed I have refused proposals for things of the kind, not merely on the score of age, but because Fate has not been kind in some other ways. As, when I began again with smaller and lighter things, people seemed to like these, request of friends became more than a polite apology - there is no need to say anything about the rest of the line as to another kind of obligation. After all, one goes back as usual to Shakespeare and Benedick.
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