A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state / [Anon].

Date:
1789
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2° ] This difference of manners between him and the Manager produced a mutual, but not unfriendly, exchange of raillery. To raife a laugh at the Dodlor’s expence was the amufement of many an hour at Hamp¬ ton. Garrick told him one evening, after his return from performing at Drury Lane, that he wifhed to~ fee a favourite fcene adled bv a performer at Cbvent- Garden, then much in fafhion ; that he had flipped from his own ftage flily, and trufted an under- -, ■»_ ling aftor, known by the name of Dagger Marr*, to fupply for a few minutes his place, which was only to ftand iilent and aloof, and that he returned time enough to * take his place before it was his turn to fpeak. The Doftor creduloufly fwallowed, the ftory, circulated it with a degree of ferious wonder ; the town enjoyed the joke, * Not Jefferfon, as Meffrs. Efte and Topham, who are very correct, relate it. and
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