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RNYG.774.019
24 Mar 1774:12 (49)
London. Extract of a letter from Bath, Dec. 23. "Poor
young Wroughton, after dancing past thirty couple at our
last ball, instantly dropt down dead! His partner, and one
other lady, fainted away; but some spirit of hartshorn, and
the still more powerful tincture of fiddle, enabled them to
save most part of the evening's amusement: and as for the
rest of the dancers, they no more regarded the loss of one
man (where dancing men are so plenty) than a Buckinghamshire
lace-maker does the dropping of a single bobbin. Had King
Nash, however, been living, I dare say he would have
instantly dismissed the fiddlers, and produced a little real
concern, among people who were too well-bred to affect any.
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