The progress of a rake shewing The Various intrigues and dangers he met with; under the following Heads. I. His Intrigue with a certain City-Lady, and the Trick she contrived to gratify her Desires. II. His Adventures with the Whores in Drury-Lane, and the Comical Trick that was serv'd the Informers. III. The History of a certain Councellor noted for a good Stomach. IV. His Intrigue with a Butcher's Wife; his Quarrel with a young Officer, and the Duel thereupon. V. The Treatment he met with at a Conventicle. VI. His Intrigue with a Dutchess; the Trick he play'd the Merchants at Garraway's. And several other Entertaining Passages and Occurrences. To which is prefixed, by way of Introduction, A Poem, called The Rakes Night

Bibliographic Details

Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for N. Cox, Bookseller, under the Middle-Piazza, near Mr. Hogarth's, Covent-Garden; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster 1732, MDCCXXXII. [1732]
Subjects:	Adventure Stories, English / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0076602800?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa