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"The Accomplish'd Rake: or Modern Fine Gentleman"
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Date: 1727
Young gentlemen may be "wholly neglected and left to branch forth into numberless Follies, like a rich Field uncultivated, that abounds in nothing but tall Weeds and gaudy scentless Flowers"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1727
Women have the same "Passions and Inclinations [as Men], which when let loose without a Curb, grow wild and untameable, defy all Laws and Rules, and can be subdued by nothing but what they are seldom Mistresses of"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
