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NECO.725.004
1-8 Feb 1725:11,12,21,22 (184)
[Editorial on extravagance and sumptuousness as a result of
merchants importing excess from abroad.]
. . . And when the gentry find they are ap'd by one riff-
raff, and every Mechanick animal, and begin, to their great
mortification, to meet their favourite mode where ever they
go, immediately there's a new fashion coin'd, and they
having given it a sanction, it soon passes current among the
vulgar, and in a little time is too common for madam, who
being now as much asham'd as she was before proud of the
mode, resolves again upon an alteration. And so they dance
round in a circle of Oranges, while the whole country pays
the fidler; the great ones straining to run the low tribe
out of sight. . . Yours, &c. S.D.
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