Quote#Politics & Power
... Mr. Nussey, the king's apothecary, ... whom I knew very…
Quote byThomas Gordon Hake · 1809–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memories of Eighty Years (1892), pp. 51–52.
English (original)
... Mr. Nussey, the king's apothecary, ... whom I knew very intimately later in life, told me that the king confided to him all his secrets, and the knowledge, if written down, would set all England in a blaze. He was with the royal patient to the last, the king never letting go of his hand for twenty-four hours, which gave him an agony of cramp all but insupportable.
— Thomas Gordon Hake
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