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" I love my love with an A, because he is so and so : and I hate him with an A, because of this and that : " and some of them, but particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. "
A Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland - Page 117
by George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 256 pages
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the ..., Volume 4

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1828 - 486 pages
...the ground, there being no chairs, playing at " I love my love with an A, because * Dorothy Howard. he is so and so ; and I hate him with an A, because...and that :" and some of them, but particularly the Duchesse herself and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir...
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early ..., Volume 1

Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...Duchess of York, and all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at " I love my love with an A, because he...A, because of this and that;" "and some of them," adds the writer, " but particularly the Duchesse herself*and my Lady Castlemaine were very witty."...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the ..., Volume 4

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 510 pages
...and Duchess, with all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet, on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at " I love my love with an A, because he...herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir J. Smith to Captain Cox's ; and there to talk, and left...
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Hudibras, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1859 - 624 pages
...all the great ladies at "Whitehall, " sitting upon a carpet upon the ground, there being no chairs, playing at ' I love my love with an A, because he...A, because of this and that ; ' and some of them, particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty." * The widow, in these...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pages
...all the great ladies at Whitehall, ' sitting upon a carpet upon the ground, there being no chairs, playing at ' I love my love with an A, because he is so and so ; and I hate him wTth an A, because of this and that ;' and some of them, particularly the Duchess herself, snd my Lady...
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Althorp Memoirs: Or, Biographical Notices of Lady Denham, the Countess of ...

George Steinman Steinman - 1869 - 142 pages
...and Duchesse, with all the great ladies sitting upon a carpet on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at ' I love my love with an A., because he...I hate him with an A., because of this and that,'" — a childish game not yet gone out of use. Early in 1679, or perhaps in the end of the preceding...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.: From His Ms ...

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1879 - 648 pages
...and Duchess, with all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet, on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at " I love my love with an A, because he...herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir J. Smith to Captain Cox's ; and there to talk, and left...
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Ida Vane: A Tale of the Restoration

Andrew Reed - Great Britain - 1880 - 474 pages
...your Duchess and all your great ladies, Lady Castlemaine included, and play as you did the other day at ' I love my love with an A, because he is so and so,' and ' I hate him with an A, because of this or that,' and be as witty as you like only in private and in the palace, but destroy not all decorum...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.,from His ..., Volume 9

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1884 - 384 pages
...and Duchess, with all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet, on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at " I love my love with an A, because he...herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir J. Smith to Captain Cox's ; and there to talk, and left...
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Social Life in England from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660-1690

William Connor Sydney - England - 1892 - 484 pages
...dinner, " with all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet .upon the ground — there being no chairs — playing at ' I love my love with an A, because he is so and so ; and I hate him with an A, because this and that ;' and some of them, but particularly the duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were...
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