The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… or a Young Sheriff at a County-Assizes . After we had mutually dispatch’d our Complements to each other, and I had Awkwardly return’d, in Country Scrapes, his All-a-mode Bows and Cringes, he would needs prevail with me to Dine with him … of their Practice hath render’d them like a Path-way , by common Treading , Nasty and Infertile, he ransacks their Wardrobe, strips them of their Plumes, and Discards ’em; who are forc’d to fly to some common Bawdy-House for Refuge, … take an Opportunity to do him such a piece of Service, if he gives him but the least Item of his slender Affections towards his Help-mate . And I have often heard him say, that Women are always the best Patients, especially if they Die …
Taverns | Dining
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