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7 I do not know the source of this observation. Possibly the late Professor Clifford Leech’s principle, ’if you have forgotten the source, the idea is your own’, applies. Poems and Fables, ed. James Kinsley (Oxford Standard Authors, 1962), pp. 130-1. John Aubrey, ‘Mr John Milton’, The Early Lives of Miltorr, ed. Helen Darbishire (1932), p. 6.

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He won’t go away. He belongs. At home you’ll discover him Washing up, gardening, Cooking: part of the scene.

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