[35]: "Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," by John Ashton.
[36]: Isaac Walton says, "Now let's go to an honest alehouse where we may have a cup of good barley wine, and sing 'Old Rose,' and all of us rejoice together." And we get a presumed explanation of the Song in The British Apollo (1708-9).
"In good King Stephen's days, the Ram,
An ancient inn at Nottingham,
Was kept, as our wise father knows,
By a brisk female call'd Old Rose;
Many, like you, who hated thinking,
Or any other theme than drinking,
Met there, d'ye see, in sanguine hope
To kiss their landlady, and tope;
But one cross night, 'mongst twenty other,
The fire burnt not, without great pother,
Till Rose, at last, began to sing,
And the cold blades to dance and spring;
So, by their exercise and kisses,
They grew as warm as were their wishes;
When, scorning fire, the jolly fellows
Cry'd, 'Sing Old Rose, and burn the bellows.'"
[37]: The East India College.
Transcriber's notes: Obvious printer's errors have been silently corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.
Other changes made:
—Page [43]: "Generals Savary and Tallemand" changed to "Generals Savary and Lallemand".
—Page [54]: "Argaud lamps" changed to "Argand lamps".
—Page [125]: "'And, will you protect me!" changed to "'And, will you protect me?"