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"I was in the wood at Tyninghame when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back a stout old Trojan of the first head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e'er a bullock's.
The., my wife and I, in their coach to Hide Parke, where great plenty of gallants, and pleasant it was, only for the dust. Here I saw Mrs. Bendy, my Lady Spillman's faire daughter that was, who continues yet very handsome. Many others I saw with great content, and so back again to Mrs. Turner's, and then took a coach and home. I did also carry them into St. James's Park and shewed them the garden.
He was of noble blood, and for some time was rich; but had this tyrannical inclination, that whenever he went out of doors he caused his servants to fill their pockets with gold and silver, and meeting in the street your spruce gallants and better sort of beaux, without the least provocation, for his fancy, he used to strike them hard on the face with his fist; and immediately after that, to appease them and hinder them from complaining to the magistrates, he would give them as much money as satisfied them according to the law of the twelve tables.
The impatience of several young gallants could hardly by restrained even during the ceremony; at the conclusion of which they tumultuously surrounded Lord Scales, declaring they would not let him go, till he had told them who and what was this mysterious friend: Lord Scales had headed a gallant band of English knights in the Moorish war, and was therefore supposed to know every thing concerning Spain, and certainly of this Anglo-Spaniard, as ever since his arrival in England they had constantly been seen together.
Full of good nature easy and accommodating in his disposition, ever ready to oblige, when any of the fair were in distress for a beau, he could always be had, and even felt honored to be called upon such service, when it was not desirable to take such a liberty with gallants of a different cast and temperament.
There are fourscore and eighteen, which I keep as memorials of them; and I asked for yours to make up the hundred. So that I have had a hundred gallants already, notwithstanding the vigilance of this wicked genie, who never leaves me. He may lock me up in this glass box and hide me in the bottom of the sea; but I find methods to elude his vigilance.
At last it came: the first paragraph that struck my eyes was the following: "It is rumoured among the circles of the Faubourg, that a duel was fought on , between a young Englishman and Monsieur D ; the cause of it is said to be the pretensions of both to the beautiful Duchesse de P , who, if report be true, cares for neither of the gallants, but lavishes her favours upon a certain attache to the English embassy."
Lady in the case. Love entanglement. It's a way we gallants have in the navy. Uniform that does it. Drop in some evening and have a glass of old Burgundy. She's game. Do it in the shake of a lamb's tail. THE DARK MERCURY: The Castle is looking for him. He was drummed out of the army. Leopold! Lionel, thou lost one! Clear my name. Mistaken identity. The Lyons mail. Lesurques and Dubosc.
It was at this period the fashion of the young and gay to wear, in their morning walks, a scarlet cloak, often laced and embroidered, above their other dress, and it was the trick of the time for gallants occasionally to dispose it so as to muffle a part of the face.
Hater and his wife, who through her maske seemed at first to be an old woman, but afterwards I found her to be a very pretty modest black woman. I am sorry that I am not at London, to be at Hide- parke to-morrow, among the great gallants and ladies, which will be very fine. Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there.
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