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BC.770.051
30 Apr-3 May 1770:1423 (193)
On Monday night two gentlemen, in a box at Drury-Lane
Theatre, differing in their opinions respecting the merits
of the new comedy, agreed to adjourn to the Shakespeare, and
decide the controversy by the point of the sword; they
called for a bottle of wine, and being conducted into a
room, immediately drew; when one by an oblique thrust cut
off one of the fingers of his antagonist; the waiter hearing
a noise rushed in, and disarmed them; they then drank out
the wine, and departed seeming in perfect amity.
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