A country lady's journal, inthe days of Q. Elizabeth, contrasted with one of a modern fine lady of the present year[not before 1742?]engDate of publication from internal evidence: a reference to the modern lady reading "Hoyle", presumably one of Edmond Hoyle’s books on whist or another game, the first of which was published in 1742.Text in two sections: "Lady in Q. Elizabeth's time" and "Modern fine lady". First line begins: "Five o'clock.--Get up an hour sooner than usual".Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work.In two columns with title centered above both; columns are not separated by rules.Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed.Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.