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==Final inscription== At the end of the full score he inscribed the words "Bramo assai, poco spero, nulla chieggio". This is a quote from [[Torquato Tasso]]'s ''[[Jerusalem Delivered]]'', Book II, Stanza 16 (1595), albeit slightly altered from third to first person. It means: "I long for much, I hope for little, I ask nothing". Like Elgar's own name, this sentence too can be fitted easily into the Enigma theme.<ref>[http://www.elgarsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vol.-13-No.-6-November-2004-Compressed.pdf Ernest Parkin, "Elgar and Literature", ''The Elgar Society Journal'', November 2004]</ref>
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