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HUMOROUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
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lion; and in one of the many advertisements imputed to
him, he is supposed to expect that the numerous candi-
dates for his hand, would present themselves individually,
or in a body before his residence. His fortune (if he could
recover it) he estimates at 300,0001. The woe-begone
widow, whose weeds, he conceives, are insupportable, he
invites to his arms, to be relieved of her burden ; as well as
the blooming miss of sixteen, to whom he supposes the
restrictions of a boarding-school are quite intolerable ; and
these he has addressed in printed documents that bear his
own warrant and signature ; and in which he enumerates,
like a judicious dealer, the sums the ladies must possess,
who are candidates for his hand.
Here it is remarkable, that the younger they are, the
less property is required ; while with age and widowhood,
the demands of Sir John increase in due proportion; and
though he modestly asserts, that few ladies will be eligible
with less than a thousand a year, be is persuaded that these
sums are mere trifles, compared with his high birth and
noble descent, for the proof of which, he is fond of refer-
ring every inquirer to Nash’s History of Worcestershire.—
To conclude, that our Readers may not suppose that we
are trifling with their credulity, in the delineation of this
extraordinary character, and as our limits will not admit
of more, we shall content ourselves with reprinting two
only, of Sir John’s fruitless advertisements for a wife;
though notwithstanding the reluctance of the ladies, we
are well warranted in saying of this Knight,
“ Take him for all in all,
11 They ne’er may look upon his like again.”
FOR A WIFE.
As the prospect of my marriage has much increased
lately, 1 am determined to take the best means to discover
the lady most liberal in her esteem, by giving her fourteen
4 days
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lion; and in one of the many advertisements imputed to
him, he is supposed to expect that the numerous candi-
dates for his hand, would present themselves individually,
or in a body before his residence. His fortune (if he could
recover it) he estimates at 300,0001. The woe-begone
widow, whose weeds, he conceives, are insupportable, he
invites to his arms, to be relieved of her burden ; as well as
the blooming miss of sixteen, to whom he supposes the
restrictions of a boarding-school are quite intolerable ; and
these he has addressed in printed documents that bear his
own warrant and signature ; and in which he enumerates,
like a judicious dealer, the sums the ladies must possess,
who are candidates for his hand.
Here it is remarkable, that the younger they are, the
less property is required ; while with age and widowhood,
the demands of Sir John increase in due proportion; and
though he modestly asserts, that few ladies will be eligible
with less than a thousand a year, be is persuaded that these
sums are mere trifles, compared with his high birth and
noble descent, for the proof of which, he is fond of refer-
ring every inquirer to Nash’s History of Worcestershire.—
To conclude, that our Readers may not suppose that we
are trifling with their credulity, in the delineation of this
extraordinary character, and as our limits will not admit
of more, we shall content ourselves with reprinting two
only, of Sir John’s fruitless advertisements for a wife;
though notwithstanding the reluctance of the ladies, we
are well warranted in saying of this Knight,
“ Take him for all in all,
11 They ne’er may look upon his like again.”
FOR A WIFE.
As the prospect of my marriage has much increased
lately, 1 am determined to take the best means to discover
the lady most liberal in her esteem, by giving her fourteen
4 days