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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 himqlf' was he only �er�on, whom he had any .way offended, he would be pleafed not to deliver hm 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. frThe 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 imroperl andl don't in the teatt doubt, but that they were affronting: but yet, n, etinks, the j9bmion which Mr. Meadovcourt rn-ce was enough to appeafe an ordinary rc�ent- ment. The d=v ft:towintt, Mr. Meadovaeourt waited on r.,r. 1 taae, to whom he was now ai'fign'd over iay Ilr. Holt. I will not believe fo unchrilian a thing of Mr. White, as to fuppofe that he deftred the proicution of Mr. Meadovacourt,.in order to gra- tiir 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 woud rather avoid than t9ele) he has given occafion to fuch an uncharitable re- flexion. ' Mr. 3'edoroeourt, the firll time he waited upon 1Sir. White, found him in a molt ungovernable pail f[on l infomuch tkat he ofien branditect his arm at him, and told him, that the members o' the Confli- rution clu$ were the molt roate 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 low tb 2, ho, were but an handful, of men, have

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