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PC.768.047
28 Mar-4 Apr 1768:741 (64)
Anecdote of Dr. King. Doctor King, late archbishop of
Dublin, having invited several persons of distinction to
dine with him, had amongst a great variety of dishes, a fine
leg of mutton boiled, and caper sauce; but the doctor, who
was not fond of butter, and remarkable for preferring a
trencher to a plate, has some of the above mentioned pickles
preserved dry for his use; which, as he was mincing, he
called aloud to observe him:--I here present you, my lords
and gentlemen, said he, with a sight that may henceforward
serve you to talk of as something curious, viz. That you
saw an archbishop of Dublin, at four score and seven years
of age, cut capers upon a trencher.
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