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[No. 468]Wednesday, August 27, 1712Steele

Erat Homo ingeniosus, acutus, acer, et qui plurimum et salis haberet et fellis, nec candoris minus.
Plin. Epist.

My Paper is in a kind a Letter of News, but it regards rather what passes in the World of Conversation than that of Business. I am very sorry that I have at present a Circumstance before me, which is of very great

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to all who have a Relish for Gayety, Wit, Mirth, or Humour; I mean the Death of poor

Dick Eastcourt

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