Down to the harp—because to music’s charms
They added graceful necks, white hands and arms.
Sometime a dance (though rarely on field-days,
For then the gentlemen were rather tired)
Display’d some sylph-like figures in its maze:
Then there was small-talk ready when required;
Flirtation, but decorous; the mere praise
Of charms that should or should not be admired.
The hunters fought their fox-hunt o’er again.
And then retreated soberly—at ten.