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Odds, fish! mind you do not overset that basset table of Japan manufacture—another Strawberry Hill relic. 

The Basset Table is also a superior comedy, especially interesting because it anticipates the modern blue-stocking in Valeria, a philosophical girl who supports vivisection, and has also a prophecy of exclusive colleges for women.

But they are pure joys, and they present themselves in competition with those of Ranelagh and the Basset Table, which are not heroic or even masculine, any more than they are pure.

And finally in the Basset Table— "Tell, tell your grief, attentive will I stay, Though time is precious, and I want some tea."

Hogarth, when he painted this inscription, was most probably thinking of Mrs Centlivre's play, The Basset Table, which a critic describes as containing a great deal of plot and business, without much sentiment or delicacy.