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Threescore and ten I can remember well: Within the volume of which time, I have seen Hours dreadful, and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowledge. "Macbeth".
I shall say nothing about myself at this juncture. That will come later. I have something of quite different purport to relate.