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Dr Kennedy : [a tragedy]

'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisbon physician). "The catastrophe of it (said he) was, that a King, who was jealous of his Queen with his prime-minister, castrated himself. This tragedy was actually shewn about in manuscript to several people, and, amongst others, to Mr. Fitzherbert, who repeated to me two lines of the Prologue : " Our hero's fate we have but gently touch'd ; The fair might blame us, if it were less couch'd"."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Fitzherbert      Manuscript: Unknown

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