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will gladly have the best possible case made out for her
goodness and truth, but so long as she is unable to make good her defence we
shall chant over to ourselves1 as we listen the reasons that we have given as a
counter-charm to her spell, to preserve us from slipping back into the
childish loves of the multitude; for we have come to see that we must not
take such poetry seriously as a serious thing2 that lays hold on truth, but that he who
lends an ear to it must be on his guard
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