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From: Giles Goodland
In a message dated 09/09/2007 09:22:22 GMT Standard Time,
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"But it was a long time ago, and they are all dead now."
No, but it reminds me strongly of
"but that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead" from The
Jew of Malta
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Again, another echo -- Castiglione's introduction to +The Courtier+, when he
recites a litany of all the figures in it, from the time fifteen years or so
earlier that he is remembering, and adds in each case something like, "But
he [or she] is dead now."
Robin
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