A Distressful Denouement


MR. MOORE having been long under a prosecution in Doctors' Commons, his

proctor called on him one day whilst he was composing the tragedy of

The Gamester. The proctor having sat down, he read him four acts of

the piece, being all he had written; by which the man of law was so

affected, that he exclaimed, Good! good! can you add to this couple's

distress in the last act?--O, very easily, said the poet, I intend

to put them into the Ecclesiastical Court.



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