The Spectator, No. 11 (13 March 1711) [ Practices ]
… he strove to shine more than ordinarily in his Talkative Way, that he might insult my Silence, and distinguish himself before a Woman of Arietta's Taste and Understanding. She had often an Inclination to interrupt him, but could find no Opportunity, 'till the Larum ceased of its self; which it did not 'till he had repeated and murdered the celebrated Story of the Ephesian Matro. Arietta seemed to … Aspersions, which are cast upon their Sex, than Men are by what is said of theirs. When she had a little recovered her self from the serious Anger she was in, she replied in the following manner.Sir, when I consider, how perfectly new all …
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