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Literary rumour in the time of Queen Anne said that William Shakespeare owed his extraordinary career to a scurrilous ballad.
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A benevolent lecturer has to persuade a class of restless girls to stay inside on a rainy day.
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An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
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A street urchin of Lahore takes it on himself to provide a naive Tibetan monk with a hot meal.
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Four knights thought they were helping their King, but they could not have made a greater mistake.
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The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.