The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… and excellent at these following Qualifications; He can out-flatter a Poet , out-huff a Bully , out-wrangle a Lawyer , out-cant a Puritan , out-cringe a Beau , out-face Truth , and out-lie the Devil . The rest that you see were … : He tells ye, that he has a Tooth-picker of Epicurus , which he always us’d after Eating; it is made of the Claws of an American Humming-Bird ; and is to be us’d like a Rake , and will pick four Teeth at once. He has Diogenes’s … and told him Man was an Earthen Vessel too brittle for her to deal in; and she had heard he had a great many Flaws in his Fortune , which she would not be at the Expence of mending; and since she had never received any …
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