Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 92 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 92: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from a Victorian penny dreadful titled "A Month's Tour" (page 92). The text contains moral moralizing about masquerades, warning against their corrupting influence on virtue and decency. It specifically addresses Irish women ("Ye Hibernian fair"), cautioning them that masquerades endanger conjugal fidelity and domestic happiness, urging them not to sacrifice lasting marital joys for transitory evening pleasures. The passage concludes with a narrative transition: "On the seventh we went to the courts of..." The typography shows characteristic 18th/19th-century typography with long 's' characters.
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9 A MONTHs TOUR city, renidered:it an-unGit habitation for any thing but that.lawlefs tribe-with which the ftreets ‘were lined, - Heré L.cannot: help, obferving that. the immediate tendency of mafquerades is to banifh all virtue, sii Snag and. decency out * the world. \ Ye Hibernian fair, hitherto renowned for “conjugal fidelity, be cautious how you open. thefe dangerous inlets of matrimo- nial difcord and wretchednefs. Let not the baleful influence of example induce you to ficrifice the lafting joys of-domeftic hap- pinefs, for the tranfitory madnefs of an evening. Cn the feventh we went to. the courts of 7 jul- comicbooks.com