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PEP.775.006
4 Feb 1775:211, 212 (1/6)
Extract from a late Publication entitled MOMUS, or The
Laughing Philosopher.
ON PLEASURE.
. . . [11 paragraphs on the various forms of human pleasure]
There was an extraordinary character, belonging to Drury-
Lane Theatre, (his name was Clough) who had not missed an
execution for thirty years. He once walked up from
Portsmouth, where he belonged to that company, to see the
execution of two criminals on Kennington Common: but there
being reprieved so disappointed his promised pleasure, that
he was heard to go away swearing in an uncommon language.
He used to be frequently attended by a brother Comedian, on
whom he called one morning to go with him to some execution;
but his friend not willing to rise, he exclaimed in a great
rage--- D---n it, Jemmy, you have no taste for true
pleasure!. . .
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