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Excerpt from The Mock-Marriage: A Comedy
Man 15 for abi'cracting fomething or other, peculiar to his own Humour, which he varnilhes over with the Name of Pleai'ure, tho' it be m it (elf ne ver fo uncouth and ridiculous. You {hall have fome whofe chief delight lies in readihg a Play, with a good Grace, to my Lady, after Dinner, pa¿inga Complement or two upon her Daughter or, in their abience, fporting with her Lap dog, perhaps the more fociable Creature of the two.
Fair. Thefe, it may be, are old Fools, funk beneath the tai'te of more re fined Pleai'ures, and by Age rendred unfit for any thing eli'e.
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