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bygones be bygones, and fair play for time to come

Let all past wrongs be forgotten, with a resumption of cordial relations.
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I fear not theſe articles, tho’ they were ten times worſe than they are, if we once cordially forgive one another, and that, according to our proverb, *Bygones be bygones, and fair play for time to come.

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