Roxana (1724) [ Practices ]
… But to go on with my story as to my way of living. I found, as above, that my living as I did would not answer; that it only brought … and bites about me, as I have said before, to make a prey of me and my money; and, in short, I was harassed with lovers, beaux, and fops of quality in abundance. But it would not do; I aimed at other things, and was possessed with so vain an opinion of my own beauty, that nothing less than the King himself was in my eye; and this vanity was …
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