The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… and no Favour; accordingly every thing was whip’d away in a Trice, by so cleanly a Conveyance, that no Jugler , by Virtue of Hocus Pocus , cou’d have conjur’d away his Balls with more Dexterity. All our empty Plates and Dishes were in … use in all such cases. But sending it up in an ill Season, the Ashes got wet in their Carriage, and quite lost their Virtue, that he was forc’d to sell them to a West-Country Barge-Man in order to Dung Land. But it’s thought by the …
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