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PROLOGUE.
To which I said,'Take care then that my tale be follow'd outBy all the lieges in my royal vein:But one that really suited time and placeWere such a medley, we should have him backWho told the Winter's Tale to do it for us:A Gothic ruin, and a Grecian house,A talk of college and of ladies' rights,A feudal knight in silken masquerade,And there with shrieks and strange experiments,For which the good Sir Ralph had burnt them all,The nineteenth century gambols on the grass.No matter; we will say whatever comes:Here are we seven: if each man take his turnWe make a sevenfold story:' then began.
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