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"Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon"s command to Puck in the
""midsummer night"s dream,"" & falling into the degree of passion to which sympathy is more
necessary than it is to grief itself, I turned in my thoughts to you as the person most likely of
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or blasphemy by act of Parliament for men to write such treaties & call them commentaries.
They are [italics]mentaries[end italics] in the strictest sense [...] Mr Halpin gives us a
""paraphrase"" of Oberon"s ""sug"red words"", -- from which, here is an extract.
"""And so the imperial votaress passed on
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.""
"Halpin loquitur. ""And so the virgin queen departed from Kenilworth castle, unshackled by any
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"I hope you dont belong to the Shakespeare society."
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necessary than it is to grief itself, I turned in my thoughts to you as the person most likely of
all to be in a competent passion [...] Now by the soul of Shakespeare, it ought to be a reason
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In maiden meditation, fancy-free.""
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