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An "I saw you" newspaper ad from 1754:
"If that lady who was at the last Masquarade, dress’d in a white domino, with a hat of the same, will be so obliging as too furnish the Gentleman who asked her to dance, but was refused, with a line on when and where he might have the pleasure of seeing her, by directing for C.G. at the Cocoa Tree on Pall Mall, he hopes to produce something greatly to her Advantage, and hopes that it will meet with her Approbation.
Note, a Coach and Six, and 7000lb per Annum, if she don’t think the Gentleman too old.”
...and that was pasted into a copy of The midnight-ramble: or, the adventures of two noble females: being a true and impartial account of their late excursion through the streets of London (1754), right after the (I kid you not) "Follow that Coach!" episode, as the noblewomen in question hire a London stagecoach to help them to track down their husbands who are on their way to spend the night with "Ladies of Pleasure."
"If that lady who was at the last Masquarade, dress’d in a white domino, with a hat of the same, will be so obliging as too furnish the Gentleman who asked her to dance, but was refused, with a line on when and where he might have the pleasure of seeing her, by directing for C.G. at the Cocoa Tree on Pall Mall, he hopes to produce something greatly to her Advantage, and hopes that it will meet with her Approbation.
Note, a Coach and Six, and 7000lb per Annum, if she don’t think the Gentleman too old.”
...and that was pasted into a copy of The midnight-ramble: or, the adventures of two noble females: being a true and impartial account of their late excursion through the streets of London (1754), right after the (I kid you not) "Follow that Coach!" episode, as the noblewomen in question hire a London stagecoach to help them to track down their husbands who are on their way to spend the night with "Ladies of Pleasure."
