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- 0:00Speaker 1: Elizabeth, Elizabeth, it surely is most fit in thy own
- 0:06Speaker 1: book that first thy name be writ. Logic and common
- 0:13Speaker 1: usage so commanding, Zeno and other sages notwithstanding. And I
- 0:20Speaker 1: have other reasons for so doing, besides my innate love
- 0:24Speaker 1: of contradiction. Each poet, if a poet, in pursuing the
- 0:30Speaker 1: muses through their bowers of truth or fiction, has studied
- 0:35Speaker 1: very little of his part, read nothing, written less, in short,
- 0:43Speaker 1: is a fool, endued with neither soul nor sense nor art,
- 0:50Speaker 1: being ignorant of one important rule, employed in even the
- 0:55Speaker 1: theses of the school, Called, I forget the heathenish Greek name.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Called anything, its meaning is the same. Always write first
- 1:09Speaker 1: things uppermost in the heart.