D'Urfey

������, then, were the “turning times” mentioned by D’Urfey?

This takes us back to how that 1689 date was determined in the first place: A spoken “Epilogue to the Opera of ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ performed at Mr. Priest’s Boarding-School in Chelsey,” written by the poet and playwright Thomas D’Urfey, was published in his “New Poems” of 1690.

One of its earliest recorded uses appears in T d'Urfey's Madam Fickle from 1677: "Banter him, banter him Toby. 'Tis a conceited old Scarab, and will yield us excellent sport."

Playwright Thomas D'Urfey used it in Madam Fickle in 1677.

Most of the program was drawn from “Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy,” a six-volume collection of poems issued by the English dramatist Thomas d’Urfey in 1719 and 1720.