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Thread #33289   Message #4147909
Posted By: GUEST,l.n.
20-Jul-22 - 01:20 AM
Thread Name: Help: Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island
Subject: RE: Help: Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island
ooh-aah: The "You ladies of lubricity, that dwell in the bordello" lines from Post Captain are from a 1611 travelogue, Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels, by Thomas Coryat.