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would, as quoth the Baron of Bradwardine, be 

 decidedly pronounced ''tametsi ebrius." Now, 

 this sort of life is all very well for once in a 

 way, but for a continuance would give any one 

 but a Lewisian delirium tremens. So it will be 

 imagined I eschewed Stornoway, except on 

 occasions when I could not help myself. 



