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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William

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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Name: The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Author: Hone, William

Hone, William

Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs

I forgot to speak to you last Saturday about our friend Becket.--We
  shall all break our hearts if he is not bookseller to y^{e} Adelphi, &
  has not y^{e} corner house that is to be built.--Pray, my dear & very
  good friends, think a little of this matter, & if you can make us
  happy, by suiting all our conveniences--we shall make his shop, as old
  Jacob Tonson’s was formerly, y^{e} rendevouz for y^{e} first people in
  England.--I have a little selfishness in this request--I never go to
  coffee-houses, seldom to taverns, & should constantly (if this scheme
  takes place) be at Becket’s at one at noon, & 6 at night; as y^{e}
  monkey us’d to be punctual in Piccadilly.

  When you left me on Saturday, whether I had exerted my spirits too
  much, or gave too great a loose to my love of drinking with those I
  like, I know not; but I was attack’d terribly with a fit of y^{e}
  stone, & had it all yesterday morning, till I was relieved from
  torture, to y^{e} great joy of my wife & family.--I was 4 hours upon
  y^{e} rack, & now as free from pain as ever I was. I am weak w^{h} my
  disorder; but I could eat turtle, & laugh with you again to day, as if
  nothing had ail’d me--’tis a curs’d disorder, & that you may never
  have that curse make y^{r} peace w^{th} heav’n by an act of
  righteousness, & bestow that corner blessing (I have mention’d) upon
  Becket & his family--this is y^{e} pray’r & petition

[Illustration:

  of Y^{r}.
  affectionate
  &
  devoted

  D. Garrick]

Mr. Becket had the “corner blessing” conferred upon him.--He removed
into the house from another part of the Strand, and remained tenant to
the “Adelphi,” until he retired into Pall Mall.

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FLORAL DIRECTORY.

  Golden Fig Marygold. _Mesembrianthemum aureum._
  Dedicated to _St. Cunegundes_.


~March 4.~

  _St. Casimir._ _St. Lucius_, Pope, A. D. 253. _St. Adrian_, Bishop, A.
  D. 874.


_St. Casimir_,

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