etween five and six at afternoon. The
merchants dine and sup seldom before twelve at noon and six at night,
especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon, as they
call it, and sup at seven or eight; but out of term in our universities
the scholars dine at ten."

Froissart mentions waiting on the duke of Lancaster at five o'clock in
the afternoon, when he had supped. These hours are still more early.
It is hard to tell, why, all over the world, as the age becomes more
luxurious, the hours become later. Is it the crowd of amusements that
push on the hours gradually? or are the people of fashion better pleased
with the secrecy and silence of nocturnal hours, when the industrious
vulgar are all gone to rest? In rude ages, men have few amusements or
occupations but what daylight affords them.}

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