The London Guide and Stranger's Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets That Abound Within the Bills of Mortality

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...symmetry, who had been in keeping in all the varied scenes of life, BY DAY--DRESS, BORROWED. 115 from the top of the tree to the bottom. She was thus strolling about, without bonnet, two miles from home; she, upon whom the wind was not permitted to blow, while under the protection of Jack G, exposed in this manner to the dark air of an autumnal evening, reminds us of the fallen greatness of Buonaparte, and the abject state of Lord Chancellor Bacon's last years, who was denied credit for a pint of porter, as the ex-emperor was for his sincerest asseverations. In general, the go is, to put the best toggery on that is to be had, adapted to the state of the weather. For this purpose, if the lady has not got clothes of her own, she can find them (on hire) at the upper class of bad-houses; most of which are extremely well furnished in that particular, deriving, from this source, no small part of their profits. If she is a good judge, she will not overdress herself, but trust for customers to her eyes and limbs, both of which she manoeuvres, when she is down upon a cull, who becomes her admirer. A good deal of ogling takes place on her part; she pretends to modesty at first, perhaps, if her dress is corresponding thereto; but, if she discovers her admirer knows a little too much to take that in, she changes her tone to 116 Courtezan's Wiles. an expected meeting, or an appointment with gentleman of consequence (a married man); but the time of meeting being past she thinks of walking homewards. Such are the arts used to inveigle men, by the force of their passions, into snares and trammels, which last, some of them, to the end of theirlives; but if not, occasion disquietude, breach of rest, and immediate distraction of the faculties, the...