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- after a fashion done accordingly. As to the interspersed ballads and
ditties--at the which, peradventure, thou mayest stare even as Rip van
Winkle, after his resurrection, did at his son--I do assure thee, Dean,
they are essentially but thoughts and conceits of thine own, the product
of seeds which planted and spontaneously developing in me, eventually
effloresced into rhyme.
But to soften the liberty here taken, as well as the licence throughout,
yes, and not without hope to propitiate and even please thee, I have so
contrived matters that thou personated the part here allotted thee at
the special instance of M. de Grandvin; thus in a literary way
associating thee with one whose social companionship thou so
unaffectedly lovest, and whose magnanimous spirit thou art ever fain to
imbibe. Vale!
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