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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK IV
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Hemings, a very worthy man,...

was reading in his parlour late at night, when he heard one coming into the neighbouring parlour, and say with a doleful voice, "The Prince of Wales is dead"; Upon which ...

it was plain, they were in a great consternation .-- _Swift_.

A most foolish story, hardly worthy of a coffee-house.
Ibid._Burnet_.It was said, that the child was strangely revived of a sudden.

Some of the physicians told Lloyd, Bishop of St.Asaph, that it was not possible for them to think it was the same child.


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