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Title: Mundus Foppensis
The Fop Display'd
Author: John Evelyn
Release Date: July 25, 2011 [EBook #36841]
Language: English
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Mundus Foppensis:
OR, THE
Fop Display'd.
BEING
The Ladies VINDICATION,
In Answer to a late Pamphlet, Entituled,
Mundus Muliebris:
Or, The Ladies
Dressing-Room Unlocked, &c.
In Burlesque.
Together with a short SUPPLEMENT
to the Fop-Dictionary: Compos'd for the
use of the Town Beaus.
Prisca juvent alios; Ego me nunc denique natum,
Gratulor hæc ætas moribus apta meis.
Non quia nunc terra
lentum subducitur aurum
Lectaque diverso littore
Concha venit.
Sed quia cultus adest, nec nostros mansit in Annos,
Rusticitas Priscis illa superstes avis.
Ovid de Arte Amandi. Lib. 3.
London, Printed for John Harris
at the Harrow
in the Poultry, 1691.
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