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GG(J.767.012a
20 May 1767:32 (190)
The gentleman who died at the Angel Inn, Islington, was
named Davers, not Davie, and the card which he was seen to
write some few hours before his death contained the
following words: Descended from an ancient and honourable
family, I have, for fifteen years past, suffered more
indigence than ever gentleman before submitted to: Neglected
by my acquaintance, traduced by my enemies, and insulted by
the vulgar, I am so reduced, wore down, and tired, that I
have nothing left but the lasting repose, the joint and
dernier inheritance of all.
Of laudanum an ample dose,
Must all my present ills compose;
But the best laudanum of all
I want, not resolution, but a ball.
N.B. Advertise this. [signed] T. D.
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