The Merry Past 



by the longer and more laborious journey of Park Lane, 

 Hyde Park, and home. These, with occasional elegant 

 entertainments and concerts, attended by much facile 

 beauty, filled the measure of his Grace's sublunary 

 enjoyments, and afforded him daily opportunities of 

 ruminating upon the various pleasures of this life, 

 and the uncertainty of the next. 



In order to preserve a life which he would seem 

 to have thoroughly enjoyed, Old Q adhered to a 

 daily regime which was as follows : 



At seven in the morning he took a warm milk 

 bath, perfumed with almond powder, where he took 

 his coffee and a buttered muffin, and afterwards 

 retired to bed. He rose about nine, and breakfasted 

 on caje au lait, with new-laid eggs, just parboiled. 

 At eleven he was presented with two warm jellies 

 and rusks. At one he ate a veal cutlet, a la Mam- 

 tenon. At three, jellies and eggs repeated.. At five, 

 a cup of chocolate and rusks. At half -past seven 

 he took a hearty dinner from high-seasoned dishes, 

 and made suitable libations of claret and Madeira. 

 At ten, tea, coffee, and muffins. At twelve, supper 

 off a roasted pullet, with a plentiful dilution of lime 

 punch. At one in the morning he retired to bed in 

 high spirits, and slept till three, when his man cook, 

 to the moment, waited upon him in person with a 

 hot and savoury veal cutlet, which, with a potation of 

 wine and water, prepared him for his further repose 

 that continued generally uninterrupted till the morn- 

 ing summons to his lactean bath. 



One of the few griefs of this old nobleman were 



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