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Perhaps this wet cloth in the original, is what we now call laudanum; a potion that overspreads the faculties, as the wet cloth did the face of the royal patient; and the translator knew not how to render it. But how like forlorn varlet thou subscribest, 'Thy melancholy friend, J. BELFORD! Melancholy! For what? To stand by, and see fair play between an old man and death?

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4