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INST.755.006
8 May 1755:38 (1/10)
. . . [In article entitled "New Sect of Evites," satirizing
women's fashions:] I was present a few nights ago at the
representation of 'The Chances;' when I looked round the
boxes, and observed the loose dress of all the ladies, and
the great relish with which they received the high-seasoned
jests in that comedy, I was almost apprehensive, that the
old story of the outrage of the Romans on the Sabine women
would be inverted, and that the ladies wou'd rise up, and
commit a rape on the men.
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