MEMORANDUM S

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OF

MY MAYORALTY:

BY

LORD WINCHESTER.

MDCCCXXXV.

"I am a wise fellow; and which is more, an officer; and which is more,
a householder; and which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any in
London; and one that knows the law, go to; and a rich fellow enough,
go to; and a fellow that hath had losses, go to. And, masters, do not
forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass."
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

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"He hath deserved well of his country. He hath so planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be silent, were a kind of ungrateful injury." CORIOLANUS.

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