The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… as an Alchymist does in Bellows; till tired with Seven Years search after Knowledge, I began to reckon with my self for my Time; and examine what a Solomon my diligent Enquiry into the uncertain Guesses of our Fore-Fathers had made me; but soon fell upon the Opinion of Socrates, and found my self as much the Wiser, as if, like the Looby Achilles , I had spent my Hours at a Distaff . This was no little … ’twice Ten no more than Junior Soph , or a Chalk Accountant . These Reflections put me into as great a Passion with my self, as a Beau when he dawbs his Clothes, or makes a false step in the Salutation of his Mistress, that I resolv’d to …
Taverns | Dining
Anthology