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diff --git a/mda/tests/input.msg b/mda/tests/input.msg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e72ad7b2b --- /dev/null +++ b/mda/tests/input.msg @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +From: "Lemuel Gulliver, esq." <gulliver@example.net> +To: root +Subject: Travels into several remote Nations of the World + +A LETTER from Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson + +I HOPE you will be ready to own publickly, whenever you shall be called +to it, that by your great and frequent Urgency you prevailed on me to +publish a very loose and uncorrect Account of my Travels; with Direction +to hire some young Gentlemen of either University to put them in Order, +and correct the Style, as my Cousin Dampier did by my Advice, in his +Book called A Voyage round the World. But I do not remember I gave you +Power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any +thing should be inserted: therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce +every thing of that Kind; particularly a Paragraph about her Majesty the +late Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious Memory; although I did +reverence and esteem her more than any of human Species. But you, or +your Interpolator, ought to have considered, that as it was not my +Inclination, so was it not decent to praise any Animal of our Composition +before my Master Houyhnhnm: And besides the Fact was altogether false; +for to my Knowledge, being in England during some Part of her Majesty's +Reign, she did govern by a chief Minister; nay, even by two successively; +the first whereof was the Lord of Godolphin, and the second the Lord of +Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not. Likewise, in +the Account of the Academy of Projectors, and several Passages of my +Discourse to my Master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some +material Circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a Manner, that +I do hardly know mine own Work. When I formerly hinted to you +something of this in a Letter, you were pleased to answer that you were +afraid of giving Offense; that People in Power were very watchful over the +Press, and apt not only to interpret, but to punish every thing which looked +like an Innuendo (as I think you called it.) But pray, how could that which +I spoke so many Years ago, and at about five Thousand leagues distance, in +another Reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos who now are said to govern +the Herd; especially at a time when I little thought on or feared the +Unhappiness of living under them. Have not I the most reason to complain, +when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a Vehicle, as if +these were Brutes, and those the rational Creatures? And indeed, to avoid +so monstrous and detestable a Sight was one principal Motive of my +Retirement hither. + +Thus much I thought proper to tell you in Relation to yourself, and to the +Trust I reposed in you. + |