The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… School-fellow, whom I found had laid down the Gown , and took up the Sword , being Trick’d up in as 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 … only showing one another how many sorts of Apes Gestures , and Fop’s Cringes , had been invented since the French Dancing-Masters undertook to teach our English Gentry to make Scaramouches of themselves; and how to Entertain … day at the Tavern , at the Play-House every Night, stirs no where without a Coach ; and has his Fencing-Master, Dancing-Master, Singing-Master, French-Master , and is as Compleat a City Beau (notwithstanding he was bred to the …
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