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Excerpt from Walpoliana, Vol. 2
The etiquette of the Spanifh court was the moft fevere in Europe. One of their kings even fell a vraim to it; Philip in; being newly recovered from a dangerous ma lady, was fitting near a chimney, in which was fo larg'o a fire of wood, that he' was al: molt fli?ed. Etiquette did not permit him to tile, nor a common domeftic to enter. At length the Marquis de Pobar, Chamberlain, came in, but etiquette forbad his inter ference, and' the Duke of Ufi'eda'r, m'afie'r of the houfehold, viras' font for. He was gone out and the ?ame king Bore itf patiently, rather than dig nity. But hisblbod was fo heated, that next morning an eryfipelas of the head appeared.
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