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"Spectator, No. 211"
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Date: Thursday, November 1, 1711
"Ever since your Spectator of Tuesday last came into our Family, my Husband is pleased to call me his Oceana, because the foolish old Poet that you have translated says, That the Souls of some Women are made of Sea-Water. This, it seems, has encouraged my Sauce-Box to be witty upon me."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)