The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… much Gaiety as a Dancing-Master upon a Ball-day , or a Young Sheriff at a County-Assizes . After we had mutually dispatch’d our Complements to each other, and I had Awkwardly return’d, in Country Scrapes, his All-a-mode Bows and … were above. Then with a Hop, Stride, and Jump, ascended the Stair-Head before us, and from thence conducted us to a spacious Room, where about a dozen of my School-fellows Acquaintance were ready to receive us: Upon our Entrance they all … of Periwig on, and a whole piece of Muslin about his Neck , and stunk as strong of Orange-Flower-Water 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 …
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