Roxana (1724) [ Practices ]
… A while after the masks came in and began with a dance à la comique, performing wonderfully indeed. While they were dancing I withdrew, and left a lady to answer for me that I would return immediately. In less than half an hour I … three o’clock in the morning, the other gentlemen sat down to play; the music held it out, and some of the ladies were dancing at six in the morning. But I was mighty eager to know who it was danced with me. Some of the lords went so far as … he was too young, His Majesty being at that time in an age that might be discovered from a young person even in his dancing. … "I had, it seems, the felicity of pleasing everybody that night to an extreme, and my ball, but especially my …
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