Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 97 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 97: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or tour account titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes an encounter with an elderly woman (wife of someone identified only as "B—— fenior") who expresses her political views, notably her loyalty to the King and pity for his situation. The passage then shifts to describe the narrator's efforts to explore Dublin, mentioning that on the eleventh day they were directed to a tavern called the Eagle in Eustace-street, which is frequented by the Duke of Leinster. The page number is 97.
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A MONTH’s TOURS of B——fenior. His wife is the neateft'old perfon lever beheld. She converfed up-.. on various fubjeéts in a very rational: manner. Her loyalty to his Majetty.is-al- moft unexampled. In delivering: her fen- timents concerning him, fhe expreffed her- felf as follows: “* Poor King! I’ pity him; forrhe is a good man, and deferving- of bet-; ter fubje¢ts than the generality of Englith- men are. I envy his virtues, but not his’ fituation, nor would J change with him if | the crown was ofiered me this moment.” ‘We were determined to be as well ac- quainted with Dublin as poffible. For this reafon we often changed our tavern ; and con the eleventh we were recommended to the “Eagle in Euftace-ftreet, frequented by the duke of Leinfter, as: fomething-very raat s N capi- comicbooks.com