The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… one to t’other, like Squibs and Crackers in Cheap-side , when the Cuckolds all-a-Row March in Splendour thro’ the City. But thanks to good Fortune, my Friend in a little time redeem’d me out of this Purgatory, perceiving my uneasiness, … account in the North of England ; and his Bills will pass as Currant in Lombard-street as the best Merchants in the City. There was a Handsome lusty young Fellow who sat next him, with a Wheel-Barrow full of Periwig on, and a whole … as a Spaniard does of Garlick. He was the other Day but a Wine-Coopers Prentice, and a brisk young Dame in the City, who was forced by her Father to Marry an Old Merchant for the sake of his Riches, maintains him in that Equipage …
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