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Wednesday Night A man is just now arrived from M. Hall, who tells me, that my Lord is in a very dangerous way. The gout in his stomach to an extreme degree, occasioned by drinking a great quantity of lemonade.
A man of £8,000 a year to prefer his appetite to his health! -- He deserves to die! -- But we have all of us our inordinate passions to gratify: and they generally bring their punishment along with them -- so witnesses the nephew, as well as the uncle.