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Foote And Lord Townsend
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FOOTE, dining one day with Lord Townsend, after his duel with Lord
Bellamont, the wine being bad, and the dinner ill-dressed, made Foote
observe, that he could not discover what reason could compel his
lordship to fight, when he might have effected his purpose with much
more ease to himself. How? asked his lordship. How? replied the wit,
why you should have given him a dinner like this, and poisoned
him.
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