She is sensible, that a vain
Person is the most insufferable
Creature living in a well-bred
Assembly.
That she desired, before she appeared in publick again, she might have Assurances, that tho’ she might be thought handsome, there might not more Address or Compliment be paid to her, than to the rest of the Company.
That she conceived it a kind
of Superiority, that one Person should
take upon him to commend another.
Lastly, That she went into
the Infirmary, to avoid a particular
Person who took upon him to
profess an Admiration of her.
She therefore prayed, that to applaud out of due place, might be declar’d an Offence, and punished in the same Manner with Detraction, in that the latter did but report Persons defective, and the former made them so.
All which is submitted, &c.
There appeared a Delicacy and Sincerity in this Memorial very uncommon, but my Friend informs me, that the Allegations of it were groundless, insomuch that this Declaration of an Aversion to being praised, was understood to be no other than a secret Trap to purchase it, for which Reason it lies still on the Table unanswered.
The humble Memorial of the Lady Lydia Loller, Sheweth,
That the Lady Lydia
is a Woman of Quality; married to a private
Gentleman.
That she finds her self neither well nor ill.
That her Husband is a Clown.
That Lady Lydia cannot
see Company. That she desires the Infirmary
may be her Apartment during
her stay in the Country.
That they would please to make merry with their Equals.
That Mr. Loller might stay with them if he thought fit.
It was immediately resolved, that Lady Lydia was still at London.
The humble Memorial
of Thomas Sudden, Esq., of the Inner-Temple,
Sheweth,
That Mr. Sudden is
conscious that he is too much given to
Argumentation.
That he talks loud.
That he is apt to think all things matter of Debate.
That he stayed behind in Westminster-Hall,
when the late Shake of
the Roof happened, only because
a Council of the other Side asserted
it was coming down.
That he cannot for his Life consent to any thing.
That he stays in the Infirmary to forget himself.
That as soon as he has forgot himself, he will wait on the Company.
His Indisposition was allowed to be sufficient
to require a Cessation
from Company.
The Memorial of Frank Jolly, Sheweth,
That he hath put himself into
the Infirmary, in regard he is
sensible of a certain rustick
Mirth which renders him unfit for
polite Conversation.