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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: They knew they had no remedy, and so dumbfounded were they
by their own ignorance, that they humbly requested M. Vanderberg
to relieve their minds by returning some portion of his large gains.
He gave them 1,200 francs.
The great Shakespearian and other discoveries, which were
found in a garret at Lamport Hall in 1867 by Mr. Edmonds,
are too well-known and too recent to need description.
In this case mere chance seems to have led to the preservation
of works, the very existence of which set the ears of all lovers
of Shakespeare a-tingling.
In the summer of 1877, a gentleman with whom I was well acquainted
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