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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 15, 1767
Page
4
The notice outlines a rate of 2 shillings 6 pence to subscribers if the work is issued and delivery costs extra. Publication is hoped by the end of spring. Names of subscribers will be prefixed to the work and notices published if subscriptions are taken. The author invites women to contribute mint or materials and promises thanks.
An epigram recounts Dolly and Roger in amorous mood with cross references to Bearn Hodge and clerical figures Wiltrick and the churchwardens. In a month or two Dolly cries for speed as a clown observes. Dolly flees after a comic exchange leaving Doll and the Parith to settle the matter.
An old commentary notes that to curb the mutability of ministries a strange remedy will be used by placing the Weathercock at the head of the next administration. The piece suggests this symbol may stand firm for a time unless blown about by Boreas, lingering at the pinnacle of power.
London notices detail conferences at the Gentlemen's Hotel in St James's with Durand and Conway as dispatches from the French court arrive. Nobles depart for York Races while Ireland's politics, Jesuits, and poverty loom large amid race reports, shop incidents, and public notices.
A fragment notes a view that there is fashion in both medicine and dress, arguing friction and exercise were once valued but are now disregarded, in a tone invoking an old saying about tar, fetcht, and dear tought as suited for ladies, with a nod to Lord Bacon in his history.
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