So well I’m known at Court
None ask where Cupid dwells;
But readily resort,
To Bellenden’s or Lepel’s.
And again he mentions her and her sister Margaret in his Welcome to Pope from Greece:—
Madge Bellenden, the tallest of the land,
And smiling Mary, soft and fair as down.
Like many of the Princess’s young ladies, Mary Bellenden was often in want of money. On one occasion she writes to Mrs. Howard from Bath: “Oh Gad, I am so sick of bills; for my part I believe I shall never be able to hear them mentioned without casting up my accounts—bills are accounts, you know. I do not know how your bills go in London, but I am sure mine are not dropped, for I paid one this morning as long as my arm and as broad as my ——. I intend to send you a letter of attorney, to enable you to dispose of my goods before I may leave this place—such is my condition.”[90]
LEICESTER HOUSE, LEICESTER SQUARE, TEMP. GEORGE I.