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 NOTES 421 �the Lock (ed. of 1712) Belinda wakes " when striking watches the tenth hour resound," but in the edition of 1714 she wakes "just at twelve." Prior's Hans Carvel (published 1709, but written prob- ably several years earlier) says of the fashionable lady, �She without fail was wak'd at Ten, �Drank Chocolate, then slept again. �At Twelve she rose, with much ado �Her cloaths were huddled on by Two. �Then she dines, makes a tour of interesting places in the city, and closes the day by a turn in Hyde Park much after the fashion of Almeria in the poem of Lady Winchilsea. �L. 85: " Of the best China Equipage, be lost" Concerning the rage for china and the custom of boarding the India ships before the cargo was unloaded so as to have the first chance to pick up novelties, see Sydney: Social Life in England, 1660-1669, p. 270. Cf. description of Leonora's library (Spectator, April 12, 1711) and Gay's Fan (1714). �L. 133: "But Noble Piso passes." [L d Roscommon.] �L. 161: " Whilst all he sung was present to our eyes" [In my L d Roscommon's Sylenus.] �L. 203: " Which through all ranks, down to the Carman, goes" Carmen have traditional notoriety for singing and whistling. For an assemblage of literary references similar to this one by Lady Winchilsea, see Chappell: Popular Music of the Olden Time, Vol. I, p. 138. �TO THE HONORABLE THE LADY WOBSLEY �The Utresia of this poem is Frances Thynne, only daughter of Viscount Thynne of Longleat and Frances, his wife, the daughter of Heneage Finch, second Earl of Winchilsea. Frances Thynne married Sir Robert Worsley in 1690. This poem was evidently written very soon after her marriage. The tone of 11. 1-16 would seem to date the poem before the final settlement at Eastwell. �L. 72: "His genius who th' original improv'd." Baron Thynne of Warminster, made Viscount Weymouth in 1682. He came into possession of Longleat in 1682 on the murder of his cousin Thomas Thynne. Viscount Weymouth lived much at Long- leat, where he laid out gardens in the Dutch style. The new English larch, introduced into England in 1705, was named after him the Weymouth pine. He was noted as a peer who maintained " the splendour and hospitality of the ancient peerage of England." ��� �