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some evil-disposed malignants have 
not only rumoured it abroad, but ac¬ 
tually, as it were, proclaimed it in the 
market-place, that none of these things 
narrated in this book did fall out as 
is here set down—that it was all the 
mere dream of a long trance caused 
by a violent concussion on a certain 
part of my scull, contiguous to those 
parts of the brain in which the nerves 
of outward sensation terminate, whilst 
those regions that administer to the 
imagination were a little disordered 
and much excited, and those that 
belong to the memory not at all. 
Now this is all foolishness, which 
I will hereafter fully show. 
