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The Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo: The life of Paul the Spanish sharp
The Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo The life of Paul the Spanish sharp Author:Francisco de Quevedo Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fuch a condition, that I could neither follow my friends, nor proceed towards matrimony, nor flay in Madrid, nor get away. CHAP. VIIL My tedious Cure ;... more » what paffed between my Landlady and me ; how I turned Beggar, pkkd up a confiderabk Sum of Money, and went to Toledo. The next morning, by break of day, my land, lady appeared at my bed's head. She was a choice old woman, at the years of difcretion, paft fifty-five, a great pair of beads in her hand, and a face like a chitterlin, or a walnut fhell, it was fo fall of furrows. Her name was up in the neighbourhood, and fo fhe lay in bed till noon when fhe pleafed, and with any body that could fancy it. She promoted pleafure and contrived delight; her name was Madam de la Guia ; her trade to let lodgings at home, and procure for others abroad. Her houfe was never without lodgers all the year round. It was pteafant to fee how fhe inftruaed a young girl in veiling herfelf, teaching her what parts of her face fhe muft be fure to expofe to fight. If« less