...Masquerades ". One such is described by Walpole as follows : On Monday there was a subscription masquerade, much fuller than that of last year, but not so agreeable...drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but so immensely corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo the drunken captain in Ru/ea Wife and Have a Wife.1...

...Nichols, Hogarth's Complete Works, pp. 229-30. At the Jubilee masquerade of 1749, according to Walpole, "the King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English...him to hold their cup as they were drinking tea." Walpole, Correspondence, IV (20), 49. The general availability of tickets gave the lie to the myth...

...because of it. Horace Walpole provides evidence that the aristocracy enjoyed this temporary levelling: "The King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English...desired him to hold their cup as they were drinking tea."8* Royalty, like eighteenth-century women, were glad to escape the decorum required of them at...

...Subscription Masquerade " here, also described at some length by the same old Court gossip, Walpole : — " The king was well disguised in an old-fashioned English...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking tea. The Duke [of Cumberland] had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely...

...friend's presence at a subscription masquerade, as we shall see in this quotation : — " The King WHS well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cap as they were drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent...