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is a table with benches on both sides. Any one 

 who pleases can sit here and be served with all 

 kinds of food and drink, which is here imme- 

 diately to hand, som har ar strax til hands. Men 

 and women find nothing else to do here but to walk 

 about in this large hall and listen to the music, or 

 to sit and faire bonne chere, plaga sig, in the small rooms, 

 or also to divert themselves in the garden, &c. Such- 

 like pleasure-houses, lust-hus, are found in many places, 

 both in and outside of London, where time is killed 

 fornotes, in such a way, especially in the afternoons 

 and evenings. In the Town there are held Comedies 

 Oratorios, Instrumental Concerts, Musique, Rope- 

 dancing, Lindansare, &c. Besides all kinds of pleasure- 

 houses, and according to the time of year, they also 

 avail themselves of one or other of these. If these 

 pleasures were only employed for this purpose, that after 

 one had tired himself out with his duties or business 

 during the day he took his pleasure here once a week in 

 the afternoon to freshen up his spirits, then they would 

 be of great service ; but to devote every day to this, 

 seems, sauf meilleur avis, oforgripeligen, to be nothing 

 else than to waste their youth and lead them to dissi- 

 pation, idleness, and libertinage. Everything has its 

 measure, Alt har sitt matt. Here they are accustomed 

 to vanity, ostentation, inutilite, bagatelles, fafanga, to 

 waste precious time, to fall by degrees into weakness 

 and indolence and to fight shy of work, sky for arbete. 

 Married ladies and Mistresses of Establishments, and the 

 young girls become in many ways altered and ruined, 

 bart skamde, and lose all pleasure in household duties. 



Den 14 Maji, 1748. 

 Ron vid Larix. 

 Mr. Miller told us that the Duke of Bedford had had 



