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PJ.783.028
26 Feb 1783:21, 22 (1569)
To Hamlet's Ghost.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd.
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
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Who art thou? The Ghost of Hamlet, whose name thou
assumest, or the ghost of Cateline, who, in grateful return
to Mr. Reed, for pursuing the steps of him whose body thou
once inhabited, revisitest the earth to espouse his cause?
Are his crimes so great in magnitude and number, and are his
disabilities as a non juror, so fully proved by Hampden and
Sidney, that not a single hero can be found in his whole
group of earthly champions, who dares enter the lists of
argument in his favour? . . . [1 1/2 column essay
criticising Reed, signed] Sidney
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