Maybe, provided we don't have the situation akin to that in which a friend of the writer Charles Lamb was explaining how "I could write like Shakespeare if I'd

Maybe, provided we don't have the situation akin to that in which a friend of the writer Charles Lamb was explaining how "I could write like Shakespeare if I'd a mind to . . ." to which Lamb responded as quickly as his stammer would allow: 'Y Y Y Yes, only the mind is lacking'.