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" We all agreed that the life of a Maid of Honour was of all things the most miserable : and wished that every woman who envied it, had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the... "
Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and Her Second Husband ... - Page 352
by Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824
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Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734 ...

Alexander Pope - 1735 - 468 pages
...had a fpecimen of it. To eat fVeJtphalia-ffam in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrow'd Hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat ; all this may qualify them...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 426 pages
...had a Specimen of it. To tztff/e/fphalia-Ha.mln a Morning, ride over Hedges aud Ditches on borrow'd Hacks, come home in the Heat of the Day with a Fever, and, (what is worfe a hundred Times) with a red Mark in the Forehead from an uneafy Hat ; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 304 pages
...miferable : and wim'd that every woman who envy'd it, had a fpecimen of it. To ,eat Weftphalia-ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat ; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 306 pages
...miserable : and wifh'd that every woman who envy'd itT had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia-ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 7

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 310 pages
...miferable : and wifh'd that every woman who envy'd it, had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia-ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy batj all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 366 pages
...miferable : and wifh'd that every woman who envy'd it, had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia-ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat ; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...milerable : and wifh'd that every woman who envy'd it, had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia-ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1788 - 396 pages
...moil miferable : and wiih'd that every woman who envy'd it, had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what' is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the fore. head from an uneafy hat; all this may qualify them...
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Letters to and from Mr. Pope

Alexander Pope - 1789 - 298 pages
...moft miferable ; and wifhed that every woman who envied it, had a fpecimen of it. To eat Weftphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on...in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat; all this may qualify them...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing ..., Volume 7

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 490 pages
...•f- At this time it was the fafhion for ladies of diflin&ion to rid* hunting in Windfor foreft. rowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worfe a hundred times) with a red mark in the forehead from an uneafy hat ; all this may qualify them...
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