The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… , as freely as Fools did with their Pence to the Wheel of Fortune . Come, says my Friend, let us step into this Coffee-House here, as you are a Stranger in the Town, it will afford you some Diversion. Accordingly in we went, where a … being so Catholick , it pretends to nothing less than Universality: That indeed had not my Friend told me ’twas a Coffee-House , I should have took it for Quacks-Hall , or the Parlour of some Eminent Mountebank . When we had each …
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