The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… their Satisfaction, and my own Diversion, the following Journal , wherein I purpose to expose the Vanities and Vices of the Town, as they shall by any Accident occur to my knowledge, that the Innocent may see by Reflection, what I … Tikes, and can with all safety trust his Life in their Hands, for now and then Gilding their Palms for the good Services they do him. He pretends to be a Disbanded Officer , and reflects very feelingly upon the hard usage we poor … him with the Care of his Family, once in a Twelve-Months time he’ll take an Opportunity to do him such a piece of Service, if he gives him but the least Item of his slender Affections towards his Help-mate . And I have often heard him …
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