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TO ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL I   "He loved chivalrye,   Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.   And of his port as meek as is a mayde,   He never yet no vileinye ne sayde   In al his lyf, unto no maner wight.   He was a verray parfit gentil knyght." Introduction The Cabell case belongs to comedy in the grand manner. For fifteen years or more the man wrote and wrote—good stuff, sound stuff, extremely original stuff, often superbly fine stuff—and yet no one in the who