The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… Hutt, where I dwelt like Diogenes in his Tub, or an Owl in a Hollow-Tree, taking as much delight in my Books, as an Alchymist does in Bellows; till tired with Seven Years search after Knowledge, I began to reckon with … Heir the charges of his Fathers Funeral. Mind the little Blade in the Cloak , that’s talking to a Parson ; he’s a Bookseller in this City , and has got an Estate by Starving of Authors. I’ll warrant you, the Priest has been … he became well pay’d for a great deal of Waste-Paper: So he is crept into the Estate, and they are got into his Books for it. There is abundance of such sort of Plain-Dealing practic’d amongst our worthy Citizens : for you must …
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