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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.30147#0039
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money, that fome body smuggled up in a
few years at Bath, five hundred pounds.
Those who have sat to Mr. Gainiborough
know, that he ftood, not fab at his Palate,
and consequently, of late years at least,
five or six hours work every morning,
tired him exceedingly, and then, when
he went into the park for a little fresh air,
or up into the city upon business, if he
took a hackney coach to ease his tired
limbs back again, he was obliged to be
set down in St. James’s Square, or out of
the sight of his own windows, for fear of
anotherfet dozon not so convenient either
to his head, or his heels, as riding out
twelve penny worth of coach hire, after
having earned fifty guineas previoussy
thereto! I have more than once been set
E 2 down
money, that fome body smuggled up in a
few years at Bath, five hundred pounds.
Those who have sat to Mr. Gainiborough
know, that he ftood, not fab at his Palate,
and consequently, of late years at least,
five or six hours work every morning,
tired him exceedingly, and then, when
he went into the park for a little fresh air,
or up into the city upon business, if he
took a hackney coach to ease his tired
limbs back again, he was obliged to be
set down in St. James’s Square, or out of
the sight of his own windows, for fear of
anotherfet dozon not so convenient either
to his head, or his heels, as riding out
twelve penny worth of coach hire, after
having earned fifty guineas previoussy
thereto! I have more than once been set
E 2 down