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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 442 — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.

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'One of the men advised her, with the cunning that clowns never can be without, to ask more; but she said that a shilling was enough. We gave her half a crown, and she offered part of it again.' Piozzi Letters, i. 133.

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