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 420 NOTES �A SONG UPON A PUNCH BOWL �Leslie, or Lashley, Finch was born in 1669, the year of his father's and mother's return from Turkey. At thirty he married Barbara Scroop. He died without issue at Longleat. This poem was first published in Mr. Gosse's Gossip in a Library. �THE BARGAIN �On the margin of the manuscript is written in pencil, " Made at my request by Ardelia." The handwriting is the same as that of many of the corrections in the text. �TO MY SISTEE OGLE �" From Kyrby, Dec. 31, 88 " is added in the earlier MS. There is also a note in pencil : "Also found on p. 5 of folio MS.," showing that the two manuscripts have been at some time in the same hands. Christopher Hatton, the owner of Kirby Hall, had, in 1685, married as his third wife Elizabeth Haselwood, Anne's cousin. �ABDELIA'S ANSWER TO EPHELIA �L. 75: "And some few Authors old and dull to me" The following lines were added here in the margin of the MS.: Ev'n Wicherly admires whose biting pen Reveals our Frailty to insulting men, And speaks of Otaway with such delight As if no other pen could move or write. �L. 78: "Ere twelve was struck she calls me from my bed." The hours observed by a fashionable lady are somewhat variously indicated in the satire and the comedy of this period. Lodowick in Sir Patient Fancy (Mrs. Behn, 1678) in describing how a married woman of quality ought to live, says: "From eight till twelve you ought to employ in dressing, till two at dinner, till five in visits, till seven at the play, till nine in the Park, at ten at supper with your lover." In The English Lady's Catechism (1703) the lady says: " I lie in Bed till Noon, dress all the Afternoon, dine in the Even- ing, and play at cards till Midnight " (quoted by Ashton: Reign of Queen Anne). In The Basset Table (Mrs. Centlivre, 1705) Lady Reveller says: "Why does anybody dine before Four o'Clock in London 1 ? For my Part, I think it an ill-bred Custom to make my Appetite Pendulum to the Twelfth Hour; "and her Maid adds, " Besides 'tis out of fashion to dine by Daylight." In The Rape of ��� �