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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Commandments
Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks: A Selection, edd. J.A. Gere and John Sparrow (1981; rpt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 94:
Well, anyhow I haven't made a graven image. Country squire, after Mattins