Wakley himself.
"With respect to the ballit, my baleaf is, that it is wrote by a footman
in a low famly, a pore retch who attempted to rivle me in my affections
to Mary Hann--a feller not five foot six, and with no more calves to his
legs than a donkey--who was always a-ritin (having been a doctor's boy)
and who I nockt down with a pint of porter (as he well recklex) at the
3 Tuns Jerming Street, for daring to try to make a but of me. He has
signed Miss H's name to his NONSINCE AND LIES: and you lay yourself
hopen to a haction for libel for insutting them in your paper.
"It is false that I have treated Miss H. hill in HANY way. That I
borrowed 20lb of her is TREW. But she confesses I paid it back. Can hall
people say as much of the money THEY'VE lent or borrowed? No. And I not
only paid it back, but giv her the andsomest pres'nts: WHICH I NEVER
SHOULD HAVE ALLUDED TO, but for this attack. Fust, a silver thimble
(which I found in Missus's work-box); secknd, a vollom of Byrom's poems;
third, I halways brought her a glas of Curasore, when we ad a party, of
which she was remarkable fond. I treated her to Hashley's twice,
(and halways a srimp or a hoyster by the way,) and a THOWSND DELIGIT
ATTENTIONS, which I sapose count for NOTHINK.
"Has for marridge. Haltered suckmstancies rendered it himpossable.
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