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[ L'Hermitage, Dec. 3/13 7/17, 1697.]
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[ Commons' Journals, Dec. 3. 1697. L'Hermitage, Dec 7/17.]
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[ L'Hermitage, Dec. 15/24., Dec. 14/24., Journals.]
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[ The first act of Farquhar's Trip to the Jubilee, the passions which about his time agitated society are exhibited with much spirit. Alderman Smuggler sees Colonel Standard and exclaims, "There's another plague of the nation a red coat and feather." "I'm disbanded," says the Colonel. "This very morning, in Hyde Park, my brave regiment, a thousand men that looked like lions yesterday, were scattered and looked as poor and simple as the herd of deer that grazed beside them." "Fal al deral!" cries the Alderman: "I'll have a bonfire this night, as high as the monument." "A bonfire!" answered the soldier; "then dry, withered, ill nature! had not those brave fellows' swords' defended you, your house had been a bonfire ere this about your ears.">[
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[ L'Hermitage, January 11/21]