seven o'clock
And I doubt that though Shakespeare can not hold the stage in our more enlightened age , and will be less and less acted as the town grows more refined , his works will always be tasted by scholars ; among whom , in my modest way , I dare reckon myself . '' * * * * * Lord Fareham left London on horseback , with but one servant , in the early August dawn , before the rest of the household were stirring . Hyacinth lay nearly as late of a morning as Henrietta Maria , whom Charles used sometimes to reproach for not being up in time for the noonday office at her own chapel . Lady Fareham had not Portuguese Catherine 's fervour , who was often at Mass at seven o'clock ; but she did usually contrive to be present at High Mass at the Queen 's chapel ; and this was the beginning of her day . By that time Angela and her niece and nephew had spent hours on the river , or in the meadows at Chiswick , or on Putney Heath , ever glad to escape from the great overgrown city , which was now licking up every stretch of green sward , and every flowery hedgerow west of St. James 's Street . Soon there would be no country between the Haymarket and `` The Pillars of Hercules . '' Denzil sometimes enjoyed the privilege of accompanying Angela , children , and _ gouvernante _ , on these rural expeditions by the great waterway ; and on such occasions he and Angela would each take an oar and row the boat for some part of the voyage , while the watermen rested , and in this manner Angela , instructed by Sir Denzil , considerably advanced her power as an oarswoman .