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Another advertisement 27 June 1771* announces that—in 
Spring Gardens the public breakfasts will be continued every 
monday with French horns and music for cotillons, country 
dances &c, as usual, breakfast to be ready from half past nine to 
eleven. And by particular desire on every thursday evening will 
be a public tea drinking &c attended with French horns and 
other music. Tickets one shilling each which entitles the bearer 
to tea or coffee. NB. Constant attendance at the passage boat 
leading from Orange Grove to the Gardens. 
A poetical invitation to Spring Gardens, says,— 
The boat stands all ready 
The rope is quite steady 
Your passage a penny apiece 
Without wind or tide, on the opposite side 
Safe you’re landed and housed in a trice 
Coffee, chocolate, tea, spread before you you'll see 
With provisions well chosen and nice.t 
For walking in the Garden the subscription was 2/6 for the 
season ; public days excepted. Mrs. Sheridan improved, contem- 
_ porary notices say, after marriage, in her womanhood, and like 
many hundreds of other people at this date she had her portrait 
more than once painted. We can therefore now compare and 
reflect. The great praise and flattery bestowed on her as a 
_ young girl has been recorded and constantly repeated as if she 
_ would be alone in the crowd to receive such. But there were 
_ hundreds of others receiving the same thing. Weekly the Journals 
_ have verses from the poetasters of the time all fulsomely addressed 
in the wildest bombast to Chloe, Celia, Delia, Cynthia, Myra, 
Belinda, and many another, who are all divine, beauteous, and 
_ angelic, heavenly charmers. One poet apostrophising the Parade, 
P writes, [— 
To fix where paradise was plac’d why all this talk, 
Here, here’s the place, where these bright angels walk. 
* Chronicle. t+ Chronicle, 7 May 1767, p 1, col 4. 
t Chronicle, 30 Oct 1766, p 4, col 4. 
