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Without wind or tide, on the opposite side, 
Safe your landed, and hous’d in a trice, 
Coffee, chocolate, tea, spread before you, you'll see, 
With provisions, well chosen and nice. 
Of these as you eat, a musical treat, 
All sorrow shall sweetly remove ; 
Till breakfasting done, to the garden you run, 
Soft musick invites to the grove. 
Then back again haste, no time you must waste, 
When dancing becomes the gay theme, 
The bold hurdy-gurdy ; play’d by man stout and sturdy, 
Of pleasure presents you the cream. 
For what can be equal; I pray to the sequel ? 
What compar’d to the gay Cotillon ? 
Where with step, or without it, quite careful about it, 
You're sure to dance in the bon-ton. 
Here, quite in her prime, Miss for the first time 
Two very odd things puts together, 
Our own country-dance, and another from France, 
So jump’d you cannot tell whither. 
Then approach, sons of mirth, and with hearts light and gay, 
From the Pump Room assemble the fair ; 
One draught of warm water, then hasten away 
And quick to Spring-Gardens repair. 
The first use of the word “ Vauxhall”’ in direct connection 
with these Gardens occurs in 1768. 
In 1769, a notice states that “‘ A Porter is now placed at 
the Gate,”’ and that teas are also provided, being placed on the 
“Tables at Six, continue till Seven, when the Music will be 
ready for Dancing.” ‘“‘ If the Company should chuse to con- 
tinue Dancing by Candle-light a further reasonable compensa- 
tion will be expected.” 
The earliest notice of the gardens in a Bath Guide book 
occurs in one dated 1769: ‘‘ During the Summer Season there 
are opened on the other Side of the River Avon, some very 
pleasant Gardens, called Spring Gardens, where there are 
Public Breakfasts with Music, twice a Week, viz.: Mondays 
and Thursdays at Is. 6d. each Person, Ladies and Gentle- 
men likewise meet there in the Evening to take Tea. The 
Proprietor has taken much Pains, and expended a consider- 
able Sum, to bring it to its present flourishing State ; however, 
as much Company resort there, ’tis not doubted but it will 
answer his expectations.—Every Person (except a Subscriber) 
