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Epigraph

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Nathan. Allow me to relate a tale.

Saladin. Why not?

I always was a friend to tales well told.

Nathan. “Well told” — that's not precisely my affair.

Lessing.

Don Sebastian You have no plot.

Fabricio. But such characters! and every one is true as Truth:
copied right off from nature.

Don Sebastian Badly done, sir Poet.

Fabricio. Yet consider, 't was at a sitting: a single sitting, by all
the saints! I will do better when I have those
pistoles, and may use time.

Lope de Vega.


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