twelve o’clock
There Citherea , goddesse was and quene , Honourid highly for her majeste , And eke her sonne , the mighty god I weene , Cupid the blinde , that for his dignite A M lovers worshipp on ther kne . There was I bid on pain of dethe to pere , By Mercury , the winged messengre . -- CHAUCER . By twelve o'clock on the ensuing day Mr. Belamour , with Eugene and Jumbo , was set down at a hotel near Whitehall , to secure apartments , while the Major went on to demand his daughter from Lady Belamour , taking with him Betty , whom he allowed to be a much better match for my Lady than he could be . Very little faith in his cousin Urania remained to him in the abstract , yet even now he could not be sure that she would not talk him over and hoodwink him in any actual encounter . Sir Amyas likewise accompanied him , both to gratify his own anxiety and to secure admission . The young man still looked pale and worn with restless anxiety ; but he had , in spite of remonstrances , that morning discarded his sling , saying that he should return to his quarters .