To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

It makes fun of the idea of bargaining one’s maidenhead for a place in society. Then one day Eliza Haywood sees Florez the first cause of her misfortunes. For unknown reasons her burial was delayed by about a week and her death duties remain unpaid.

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