It's twenty rounds, two-ounce gloves, Queensberry rules, and a decision on points if you fight to the finish.

Twenty three-minute rounds, with one-minute intervals, and Queensberry rules.

Altogether now worth above £3000, having been admitted by the Duke of Queensberry into his house, who generously undertook the care alike of the helpless being's purse and person, and still in the prime of life, Gay might have looked forward, humanly speaking, to long years of comfort, social happiness, and increased fame.

And when the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry erected a monument to his memory, Pope supplied an epitaph, familiar to most readers of poetry, and which is creditable to both.

For see the hounds are just in view.' * * * * * PART II. PUBLISHED AFTER GAY'S DEATH, BY THE DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY. FABLE I. THE DOG AND THE FOX.

The Duchess of Queensberry, as head of the squadron, pished at the ill-breeding of a mere lawyer, and desired him to let them upstairs privately.

Writing to the Duchess of Queensberry he says: I am glad you know your duty; for it has been a known and established rule above twenty years in England that the first advances have been constantly made me by all ladies who aspire to my acquaintance, and the greater their quality the greater were their advances.

His next was the Tragedy of Jane Shore, written in imitation of Shakespear's stile; acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, and dedicated to the duke of Queensberry and Dover.

The late duke of Queensberry, when secretary of state, made Mr. Rowe secretary for public affairs; and when that nobleman came to know him well, he was never more delighted than when in his company:

III to the Duchess of Queensberry and Dover, Vol.

For three centuries the island was harassed by the Danes and Northmen; but when the Marquis of Queensberry rules were adopted, the latter threw up the sponge.

While the Queensberry family were in possession the poet Gay was a guest here and wrote, in a sham cave or grotto still existing on the river bank, the Beggar's Opera, that satire on certain aspects of eighteenth-century life which, strangely enough, became lately popular after a long period of comparative oblivion.

" The Marquis of Queensberry offers his services.

Yours faithfully, QUEENSBERRY.

Old Q. William Douglas, fourth Duke of Queensberry (1724-1810), the most notorious libertine of his later days.

The great Beau looks as he must have looked when the Duchess of Queensberry dared to appear at the Assembly House on a ball night with a white apron on.

Against the story of Nash and the Duchess of Queensberry, so wholesome and humane, we put that frightful anecdote that Saint-Simon tells of Lauzun's getting the hand of another duchess under his high heel, and pirouetting on it to make the heel dig deeper into the flesh.

QUEENSBERRY, family of, iii. 163.

QUEENSBERRY, Duke of, Gay and the Beggar's Opera, ii.

; Johnson inserts him among the Lives, iii. 109; letters to his sisters, ii. 64; iii. 117, 360; licentiousness, ii. 63; iii. 117; Lives of Thomson, iii. 116-7; 'loathed much to write,' iii. 360; poetical eye, i. 453; ii. 63; iii. 37; 'Queensberry, worthy,' ii.

Mind, I do not insist that, to have spirits, a nation should be as frantic as poor Fanny Pelham, as absurd as the Duchess of Queensberry, or as dashing as the Virgin Chudleigh.

You will be less surprised to hear that the Duchess of Queensberry has not yet done dressing herself marvellously: she was at Court on Sunday in a gown and petticoat of red flannel....

The Duchess of Queensberry, a much older veteran, is still figuring in the world, not only by giving frequent balls, but really by her beauty.

On Saturday evening I was at the Duke of Queensberry's (at Richmond, s'entend) with a small company: and there were Sir William Hamilton and Mrs. Harte; who, on the 3rd of next month, previous to their departure, is to be made Madame l'Envoyée

The next evening I was again at Queensberry House, where the Comtesse Emilie de Boufflers played on her harp, and the Princesse di Castelcigala, the Neapolitan minister's wife, danced one of her country dances, with castanets, very prettily, with her husband.