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BEP(F.764.036
22 Oct 1764:13 (1520)
A laugh is now circulating universally (a correspondent
informs us) in Dublin, at the expence of a nobleman not a
little remarkable for the delicacy of his disposition.
Stepping one day, about noon, to the lodgings of Miss C---y,
the young woman who sung last summer at M---e, and finding
the street-door open, his Lordship walked up to that girl's
bed chamber, who had not yet arisen, and began to rally her
pretty smartly for lying so long in bed. Miss C---y took
all, however, in good part, and at last requested my lord
should step down to her maid, and desired her to make all
possible expedition with a duck which was roasting for her
breakfast; his lordship good-naturedly complied, but had no
sooner delivered his message, than the maid, taking the
advantage of his eagerness, begged he would turn the duck
for two or three minutes, while she went to acquaint her
mistress about an affair of the greatest importance: My
lord, even assented to this, and the baggage of a maid,
having long entertained a design of exposing him, ran
instantly to a neighbouring coffee-house, frequented by some
gentlemen of his acquaintance, two or three of whom she
informed of the circumstance, and sent down to the kitchen,
where they found this illustrious personage twirling a
string about (to which, for want of a jack, the duck had
been fastened) like the unfortunate Dick Worthy, in Murphy's
farce of the citizen. The affair being handed about, a
print was speedily published, representing the kitchen
scene, which has mortified the Right Hon. Scullion so much,
that we hear he retreated immediately from town, to avoid
the laugh and raillery of the public.
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