The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayonanboco, 2016 M08 8 - 500 pages "I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene."—BURTON. |
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