Dr. Warburton and Dr. Browne (author of Barbarossa, &c.), Monsey was rather grave. "Why so much out of spirits, Doctor?" said Garrick.-"Oh! he is afraid of Dr. Warburton," said Browne." Afraid of him!" said Monsey, looking indignantly at both; "no: I may be dull to-day, for how can it be otherwise from the effect of this conversation? but I assure you I am not afraid of Dr. Warburton, nor of his man Jack either."

Leonidas Glover having married a lady of an athletic make and constitution, soon after retired to the country for a few months without the knowledge of his friends and acquaintance.

"Have you seen Glover since his marriage?" said a lady: "I fear he is lost.""I hope not, Madam," said Monsey, "though 'tis not impossible that, like his hero, he may have perished in the Straits of Thermopyla."

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be mean enough to postpone paying Dr. Monsey for a long attendance upon him and his family, by the promise of a little place at Windsor.

"I take the liberty to call upon your Grace," said Monsey one morning to him, "to tell you that this little place is at last vacant."-" Ecod!" (a favourite word of the Duke's)," and so it is, my dear Monsey; I know it: but, confound it! the Chamberlain has been just with me to tell me he has promised it to Jack

On this the Doctor retired rather disappointed; when meeting the Chamberlain next day, and lamenting his ill luck, his Lordship stared at him, and asked him whether he could keep a secret. Then, putting a folded paper into his hand, "There," says he, "is a letter in his Grace's own hand, soliciting this very place for another person."

Sir Robert Walpole used to spend much of his leisure hours with Monsey; who was his neighbour at Chelsea, and whom he used to call his merry Norfolk Doctor.

The Minister was fond of billiards; but at this game the Doctor very much excelled him. "How happens it," said Sir Robert in one of his social hours, "that nobody will beat me at billiards, or contradict me, but you, Doctor?"-"Because," said Monsey, they get places; I get only a dinner and praise."

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CCIV. The same.

A popular young Clergyman, of a good heart and sound understanding, was at times infected with a solemn theatric mode of speaking, accompanied with a mincing gesture bordering on the coxcomb. This foible did not escape the eye of the Doctor; who knew his general merit, and thought him worth reclaiming. He therefore took the first opportunity, when they were alone,

to tell him of his faults, with a friendly offer to cure him. The proposal being as readily accepted of by the Clergyman, it was agreed, that whenever the Doctor saw the affectio dramatica coming on, he should offer him his snuff-box by way of signal, and give two smart raps on the lid.

The prescription, after some time, had the desired effect. The patient had the good sense to know the value of such an intellectual physician, and he acknowledges the cure with gratitude even to this day.

CCV. The same.

Another Clergyman, a near neighbour of Monsey's, but of a different description from the former, was in the habit of contradicting him without either learning or judgment, and often without a single idea to support his argument. "If you have any faith in your opinion," said the Doctor one day, not condescending to use any other argument; " will you venture a small wager on it?"—" I could, but I won't," was the answer." Then by your own confession,"

replied the other, "you have very little wit, or very little money."

CCVI. The same.

Though Monsey lived in intimacy with Garrick at the theatre, and at a variety of private tables, Garrick was not very fond of asking him to his house; and the reason he gave for it was, to use his own words, "that the Doctor was so great a blackguard, he could not be sure of him a moment." On his promising however to behave better for the future, Garrick ventured to ask him to meet a large party of Right Honourables and fashionables at his house in Southampton-street; where Monsey figured for some time with his usual wit and pleasantry, very much to the pleasure and entertainment of the company.

At the second course, the Doctor wished for a piece of a roasted chicken, which was at the upper end of the table; and calling for it to no purpose several times to Mrs. Garrick, who happened to be engaged in talking to some noble Lord at her elbow, he