The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… level Brims discover’d it was carefully preserv’d in that order by a Hat-Case and Smoothing-Iron: He seems greatly to affect Antiquity, you might see by his Garb, tho’ the Coat he has on has not been made above this two Months, yet he … Old enough to endeavour it. These are his Working Tools, who by their Beauty, Youth, and Airyness, Insinuate into the Affections of Young Merchants, Shopkeepers Prentices , &c. whose Juvenal Fury carries them too often into the Ruinous … 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 say, that Women are always the best Patients, especially …
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