Volume 2

The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon].

  • Richard Graves
Date:
1774
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Credit: The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “* at R—-—, in Normandy; whither, in con- “* fequence of a prefling invitation, I accom... ‘*panied him to fpend part of the fummer. As ** both he and his Lady were fond of company, <<] was foon introduced to people of the bef “* fafhion, of both fexes, in that province. “* There was a young Lady of great beauty, “* the wife of one of the Members of the Par- “* liament of R——, who was the moft fre-. “* quently of our party. She hada gaiety in her “* temper, anda coquetry in her behaviour ; but _ © not more than 1s common in the married wo- ““men of that nation.”—** Ah!” cries Wild- goofe, ** Tam afraid, what you call by the foft © ““ names of gaiety and coquetry, are the lufts of “ the flefh, under a fpecious difguife; and that © “* the French are an adulterous and finful gene- “ ration.” T am afraid they are,” fays the Captain ; ‘and yet I queftion whether the in- ‘< habitants of this Ifland are in that refpc& “much inferior to their neighbours on the «¢ Continent.—But to proceed in my ftory. CHAP.