Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Copy of an Anfwer to fome Queries concerning Second- fighted Men, fent by a Minitter living near Inverne/s, t a Friend of mine. Query t. is HA T there is fuch an art, commonly called the fecond-fight, is certain, from thefe pitioni Ad inftances, | | Firtt, in a gentleman’s. houfe, one night the. miftrefs confidering why fuch perfons whom fhe expected were fo late, and fo long a coming, the fupper being all the while de- layed. for: them; afervant man about the houfe (finding the miftrefs anxious) having the fecond-fight, defires to cover the table, and before alb things were put on, thofe: perfons fhe, longed: for .would come in; which hap- pened acccordingly. elas) The fecond: initance, concerning a young Lady of great birth, whom: a rich Knight fancied;and came in fute of the Lady, but fhe could: notrendure, to-fancy him, being a harfh.
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