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■FOR THE TIMES.MR.CONDUCTOH,I am a plain man, and I love to fpeakmv mind plainly ; if you won’t pay attention to my complaints why perhaps another will; and though I take in your Paper, there is nothing in the world I hate fo much as the Txmes.*S blood, is it nut enough to put any reafona-ble mail (that is, a man who has any thing Jlike rcafon) in a paffion, to find his wife, his daughters, nay, even his fervants, all quoting the manners of high life as a juflification of their follies rI am one who is really fond of a game at cards, have no objeion to Whist and Swabbers, when the fliop is fhut up; but the young ladies of the family abfojutciy proteft again ft fo vulgar a game, and like the Milfes in “ High Life below Stairs”—Jenny, Dolly, and Schley, take the titles of Mrs. Round about, Mif, Strutt, and Madam Con Pistol, and fo Sir, a Pool of Commerce, to which I had no objection, is turned, forfooth, into a Faro Table.Our fhopman deals the cards, and a fpruce City Crop keeps the bask, my wife a fill res me ’tis a monitions good thing, and that if I will but be quiet, Dicky Discount, the Bankers Clerk, .will infure me a net ao per cent, on the profits.But zounds ’tis a perfect impofiibilitv*—I cant keep my temper-—even Job would not have kept his temper had his wife ever keft a Faro Table— it were well, however, did the grievance Hop here, but the plague on it is—Sunday proves no Sabbath to me.Inftead of reading me to fleep with a Chapter in the Bible, and fpending the evening like good Chri Ilians, we have nothing going forward at our houle—Heaven blefs us, but what my daughteis call Sunday Concerts—Sermons written extempore, give way to reading at sight—whilft Doctors of Divinity are exchanged for Doctors of Music—and to mend the matter, lam threatened with an indictment for a nuifance by my next door neighbour the Pewterer for making a noise on a Sunday.A few hints have lately been thrown out about private Theatricals in the (tileof Wargr ave — fliould that ever prove the cafe, I (hall beg leave to infift on getting up the Devil to Pay and Separate Maintenance.BARNACLE.
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London Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Apr 12, 1792
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