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King Charles I once asked the chief librarian of the Bodleian Libraryin Oxford if he could borrow a book. He was told， politely， to get，lost. A few vears later， as the wheel of historv turned.OliverCromwell3 also wondered if he might take a book away from the greatcollection， to read it at his leisure. He received exactly the same answer.