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The late facetious duke of Montagu (the memorable au thor of the bottle conjuror at the theatre in the Haymarket) gave an entertainment at the Devil-tavern, Temple-bar, to feveral of the nobility and gentry, feleé'cing the molt convi vial, and a few hard drinkers, who were all in the plot. Heidegger was invited, and in a few hours after dinner was made fo dead drunk that he was carried out of the room, and laid infenfible upon a bed. A profound {leep enfued; when the late lvlrs. Sal lmon 's daughter was introduced, who took a mould from his face in plafier of Paris. From this a malk was made, and a few days before the next mafque rade (at which the king promifed to be pie1ent,with the counte efs of Yarmouth) the duke made application to Heideg ger' s valet de chambre, to know what fuit of cloaths he was likely to wear; and then procuring a fimilar drefs, and a perion of the faine fiature, he gave hirn his inllruccions. On the evening of the mafotierade, as foon as hi 5 majefiy V'a ieated (who was always knowri by the conduitor of the en tertai nment and the officers of the court, though concealed by his drefs fropi the company) Heidegger, as ufual, ordered the munc to play God fave the King, but his back was no fooner turned, than the falfe Heide egger ordered them to firike up Ch rly over the farm. L he whole company were irillantly thiinderflr ick, and all the courtiers, not in the plot, were thrown intoa fiupid conficernation. Heideg ger flew to the mufic gallery, fwo like, fampe e,d and raved, accut ed: he muficians of drunkennef or of being fet on by fome fecret enemy to ruin him. The king and the countefs laughed fo immoderate ely, that they hazarded a difcover While Heidegger flayed in the0 gallery, 'god fave the King was the tune but when, after fetting matters to rights, be retired to one of the dancing rooms to obferve if decorum v.13 kept by the company, the counterfeit ftepping forward.

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