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A Quaker-born youth seeks love amid Dublin folly and exile
The narrator recounts a tumultuous youth from Gloucefer Jure to Ireland. He deserts Quaker schooling for commerce and medicine, drifts into taverns, plays, and debauchery, and meets a Scottish heiress in a playhouse box. They wed secretly but are shunned by her family and left penniless as she lacks her fortune.
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Gloucefer Jure
Ireland
Dublin
Trinity Colege
Calley
Bagnio
Scotland
Earl of
Bute