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Grotesque Early Critique of Education and Manners
A dense, archaic prose fragment depicts a youth urged to respect superiors, read moral and ethical treatises, and shun vanity. It satirizes pedantry, mixes ethnographic fantasy of distant lands, and hints at a writer’s failed Comedy project while tracing the young man’s social and romantic entanglements. The piece references Be Guardianish works and a plan for a Beggars Bush sequel, set amid cautionary moral discourse.
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Fégiand
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Rachet
Cruchas