Sir, - Why do we continue to calumniate poor old King Canute? The latest slanderer is Conn O Midheach in his review of Stephen Fay's book about the collapse of Barings' Bank.
Canute never tried to stop the tide, nor did he think he could. He was surrounded by a gang of sycophants, and he was demonstrating to them that neither he nor any other mortal had power over the tides and that all their flattery made no difference to that fact. - Yours, etc.,
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Limerick.