"For partly the Recommendation of his Person, but chiefly the Profusion of his Expences made her think him a very desireable Lover; and as she saw that his ruling Passion  was Vanity, she was too good a Dissembler, and too much a Mistress of her Trade, not to flatter this Weakness for her own Ends."
The History of Pompey the Little: or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog
At least 17 entries in the ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1761, 1773, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1799, 1800)<br>
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See <u>The History of Pompey the Little: or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog.</u> (London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster Row, 1751).