The Secret History of Clubs, 1709 [ Practices / Places ]
… in hopes, by the efficacy of a 'few insignificant Orders, to preserve themselves within the bounds of Discretion' and Sobriety, when the only way to keep our Head-strong Appetites in due Subjection, is to avoid those Occasions that may … haunting a Bear- Garden on the publick Days of their confus'd Revels, as to wisely govern himself within the bounds of Sobriety, by making himself a Member of a Tavern-Convention, or what is more Scandalous, tho' less Expensive, an …
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