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might b-m; been written in the twentieth instead of the 
'cighto i ith century. 
44 She shall haye all that’s fine and fair, 
And the best of silk and satin, shall wear ; 
And ride in a coach to take the air, 
And have a house in St. James’s Square.” 
Less cheerful has been the fate of Golden Square, 
which has a forsaken look, and the days when it may 
have justified, its name are past. Originally Gelding 
Square, from the name of an inn hard by, the grander- 
sounding and more attractive corruption supplanted the 
older ns me.. mv.,r -»n for the word is 
a! ■ ' ■ ■ -he first 
bml *’•' r K>tl 
■> • if . , :.h it were 
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fai 
from the 
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■'. v.":.- • u use spot?* wnere, during 
:, • - ■:; t >::■ ■ •. ; we ?v ca31, 1 .? y scores 
Them. 1 gloomy scenes forgotten, the Square 
faint. hot t 
haunts of m< 
the Plague, 
every night. 
was built, and at one time fashionable Lord Boling- 
broke lived here, while Secretary for War. It is still 
4 'not exactly in anybody's way, to or from anywhere.” 
The garden is neat, with a row of trees round the 
S- -are enclosure, and a path following the same lines. 
■ •’ he centre mndr a statue of George II ., looking 
■ - ;.;hiy out vf place, like a dilapidated Koaun 
e It was bought from Canons, the Duke of 
Chand d •ruse, near Edgware, when the house was 
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