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NLS.763.015
9 Sep 1763:41 (266)
[In letter to Earl Temple with regard to John Wilkes. In
referring to Wilkes's wife:]
But it happened that a woman, of considerable fortune,
whether in some fond whim, or, without rudeness to the sex,
in the irregularity of some female appetite, like poor
Desdemona, fell violently in love with what she feared to
look on. Whether he wooed her, as Iago tells us Othello
courted his mistress, by bragging, and telling her
fantastical lies, your Lordship, the confidant of his
amours, alone is able to inform us. She married him; he
seized her fortune, and spent it in excesses, in which a
modest woman could have no share. . .
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