Dame Rebecca Berry; Or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles the Second 2
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190 DAME REBECCA BERRY.
and there passing for a German doctor, I caused hand-bills to be printed and dis- tributed, which contained endless eulo- giums on my own skill. The humbug was sufficiently great to satisfy even an En- glish public ; and I soon had patients flocking to me from all parts of the town, whom I quacked till, if they were not cured, they thought they ought to be so, which, in nine cases out of ten, is the same thing as being so ; but the peo- ple whom I gained most renown ...amongst, were the citizens' wives, who came to me to be cured of nerves, the spleen, and oth^' modifications of ill temper, under polite names. I soon made them so well pleased with themselves, and consequently with me, that they went home ringing my praises, and so improved in humour, that the husbands came with gold, and gratitude, and gave me press- ing invitations to their houses, to which they would take no refusal, had I been inclined to make any, which I was not.
22 DAME REBECCA BERRY. 191 Once domesticated with these worthy folks, I made out that I enjoyed as great a reputation at court, as I did in the city, (and so I did, but of a somewhat different kind, it is true,) and if I de- lighted the wives, by detracting from the merits of the court beauties, as compared to theirs, so I equally charmed the hus- bands, by railing at the profligacy of the men ; (Forgive me, gentle Bucks, if I did not spare thee ;) but on myself, I was particularly severe, even robbing you, Sedley, Killegrew, Berkeley, and Rane- lagh, of a few of your achievements to emblazon my own quarterings ; and, in- deed, if it were not that I never set one sou's more value on my character than its worth, I should have more than once betrayed myself, by resenting the oppro- brious vocabulary these varlets had re- course to whenever my name was men- tioned.
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14.
190 DAME REBECCA BERRY.
and there passing for a German doctor, I caused hand-bills to be printed and dis- tributed, which contained endless eulo- giums on my own skill. The humbug was sufficiently great to satisfy even an En- glish public ; and I soon had patients flocking to me from all parts of the town, whom I quacked till, if they were not cured, they thought they ought to be so, which, in nine cases out of ten, is the same thing as being so ; but the peo- ple whom I gained most renown ...amongst, were the citizens' wives, who came to me to be cured of nerves, the spleen, and oth^' modifications of ill temper, under polite names. I soon made them so well pleased with themselves, and consequently with me, that they went home ringing my praises, and so improved in humour, that the husbands came with gold, and gratitude, and gave me press- ing invitations to their houses, to which they would take no refusal, had I been inclined to make any, which I was not.
22 DAME REBECCA BERRY. 191 Once domesticated with these worthy folks, I made out that I enjoyed as great a reputation at court, as I did in the city, (and so I did, but of a somewhat different kind, it is true,) and if I de- lighted the wives, by detracting from the merits of the court beauties, as compared to theirs, so I equally charmed the hus- bands, by railing at the profligacy of the men ; (Forgive me, gentle Bucks, if I did not spare thee ;) but on myself, I was particularly severe, even robbing you, Sedley, Killegrew, Berkeley, and Rane- lagh, of a few of your achievements to emblazon my own quarterings ; and, in- deed, if it were not that I never set one sou's more value on my character than its worth, I should have more than once betrayed myself, by resenting the oppro- brious vocabulary these varlets had re- course to whenever my name was men- tioned.
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