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The sport was, nevertheless, interrupted by the spirited conduct of the bridegroom, who, offended by the inscription on one of them, and having been a military man, fired a ball with great precision through the obnoxious allusion, put the whole band to precipitate flight, and even (it is said . . .) was going to fire at two of the party. This circumstance closed the scene; for the bridegroom was apprehended, to the great consternation of his gentle partner, who swooned away in the disastrous commencement of the Honey-moon. Our sympathetic readers will be rejoiced to hear that he was admitted to and gave bail." If Longmore did not write this, then he almost certainly read it for in the Appendix to his poem he observes that the custom of "the Charivari has been obnoxious to some" (emphasis added) and in the poem proper he has Baptisto’s bride, Annette, "swoon" (1135). 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