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Terr,e-Filiut. ever Inc fpoke, it was not with any defign to affront himi and deftred him that, fince Mr. W,tJite did no: take him at the tavern, and fince he himqlf' was he only �er�on, whom he had any .way offended, he would be pleafed not to deliver hm up to I4%ite, but inflic' upon him what punilhment he 'Sought dr, which he would willingly fubmitto. I-le prefs'd him, as far as was p.r. oper, to cogent to if, is, but was not able to prevail. frThe Reader cannot help remarking, that there 4' nting anct imprqer words, about which all thi ir was macle, were only thole which are printed in Iralick characters, deftring the Proflor to drirl} X .:g Georges health vtth the company. They may, for ought 1 know, be imroperl andl don't in the teatt doubt, but that they were affronting: but yet, n, etinks, the j9bmion which Mr. Meadovcourt rn-ce was enough to appeafe an ordinary rc�ent- ment. The d=v ft:towintt, Mr. Meadovaeourt waited on r.,r. 1 taae, to whom he was now ai'fign'd over iay Ilr. Holt. I will not believe fo unchrilian a thing of Mr. White, as to fuppofe that he deftred the proicution of Mr. Meadovacourt,.in order to gra- tiir an old grudge againPc him l though, by his be. ing fo very cffaotu in fuch an ill-natur'd off:ice (which motif peop?e woud rather avoid than t9ele) he has given occafion to fuch an uncharitable re- flexion. ' Mr. 3'edoroeourt, the firll time he waited upon 1Sir. White, found him in a molt ungovernable pail f[on l infomuch tkat he ofien branditect his arm at him, and told him, that the members o' the Confli- rution clu$ were the molt roate fellows in the univerfity, and all deferred to be exlael]'d, for lPre- tenCling to have more loyalty(very profligate in- deed !) than the tell of the ufiiverfity; he wondered - could low tb 2, ho, were but an handful, of men, have
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