Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… a Lady of Quality; and the Half-quartern from the Chandler's Shop is always followed with all an Half-quartern from the Gin Shop. The common British Spirituous, or (to ufe the Dialect of the Night-cellar) Spiritiual Liquors are so … by having gone to Routs, Ranelagh, or the Playhouse, or from having sate up all Night at the Card-table. Downright Gin and Aniseed are designed to anfwer the same Purposes among the Vulgar; to chear up a Washerwoman, who is sick with …
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