But, b’yr Lady, ‘a must build churches then, or else shall ‘a suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is ‘For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!’

When someone’s forgetting is remembered, he is no longer forgotten – if only his forgetting is remembered, he is still remembered.
Hobby Horse, for instance, has an epitaph that reads he is forgotten. And everyone who reads it considers the poor forgotten hobby horse and perhaps mourns him in his forgotten-ness and is thus remembered.

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