"So, because I woud'n't be uncivil, I made a great Supper, and invited an old Aunt of mine, that she know'd, and half a score young Women, besides herself, to take Part of it: for it burnt in my Mind, strangely."
The Plain Dealer, No 6
Text from <u>The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) &lt;<a href="">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;