_Duke's servant._ What wretches are ordinary servants, that go on in the same vulgar track every day! eating, working, and sleeping!--But we, who have the honour to serve the nobility, are of another species. We are above the common forms, have servants to wait upon us, and are as lazy and luxurious as our masters. Ha!--my dear Sir Harry-- (_Enter_ Sir Harry's Servant.) How have you done these thousand years? _Sir H.'s serv._ My Lord Duke!--your grace's most obedient servant! _Duke's serv._ Well, Baronet, and where have you been? _Sir H.'s serv._ At Newmarket, my Lord.--We have had dev'lish fine sport. _After a while they retire, then enter_ Lady Bab's Maid _and_ Lady Charlotte's Maid. _Lady B.'s maid._ O fie, Lady Charlotte! you are quite indelicate. I am sorry for your taste. _Lady C.'s maid._ Well, I say it again, I love Vauxhall." The _Spectator_ (June 11th, 1711) says, "Falling in the other Day at a Victualling-House near the House of Peers, I heard the Maid come down and tell the Landlady at the Bar, That my Lord Bishop swore he would throw her out at Window, if she did not bring up more Mild Beer, and that my Lord Duke would have a double Mug of Purle. My Surprize was encreased, in hearing loud and rustick Voices speak and answer to each other upon the publick Affairs, by the Names of the most Illustrious of our Nobility; till of a sudden one came running in, and cry'd the House was rising. Down came all the Company together, and away! The Alehouse was immediately filled with Clamour, and scoring one Mug to the Marquis of such a Place, Oyl and Vinegar to such an Earl, three Quarts to my new Lord for wetting his Title, and so forth.... It is a common Humour among the Retinue of People of Quality, when they are in their Revels, ... to assume in a humorous Way the Names and Titles of those whose Liveries they wear." What was done in a "humorous Way" in the days of Addison, was a relic of what was actually done in sober seriousness a couple of centuries earlier, when surnames were possessed by the few only, and these men of consequence.