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Richard Steele

Note 49 — SCENE I.—St. James's Park.

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This passage, down to the end of Young Bookwit's description of the feast—"twelve dishes to a course"—is a literal translation from Le Menteur, I. v. The whole scene appears again in slightly varied form in Foote's Liar.

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