The Secret History of Clubs, 1709 [ Practices / Places ]
… no number of Prudent Men would' Constitute a Meeting at a Publick Bawdy-House , and there propose, by a Table of Laws against Fornication and Adultery, to fortify weak Nature against the temptations of the Petticoat and, be able to … of their Jollity from a persuit of Drunkenness, and a shameful Lapse into all the Follies that attend it, but a few lame Laws of their own making, which themselves, at all times, have the power to Dispence with: Nor have the Penalties of …
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