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Title: An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott

Release date: November 20, 2005 [eBook #17117]
Most recently updated: December 13, 2020

Language: English

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Cover Text


AN ELEGY
ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX

MRS. MARY BLAIZE

BY
DR. OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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Good people all,
with one accord,
Lament for
Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted
a good word—
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From those
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who spoke her praise.

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The needy seldom pass’d her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor—
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Who left
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a pledge behind.

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She strove the neighbourhood to please
With manners wondrous winning;
And never follow’d wicked ways—
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Unless when she was sinning.
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At church, in silks and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size,
She never slumber’d in her pew—

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But when she shut her eyes.

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Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The King himself has follow’d her—

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When she has walk’d before.

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But now, her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short-all:
The Doctors found, when she was dead
Her last disorder mortal.
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Let us lament, in sorrow sore,
For Kent Street well may say,
That had she lived a twelvemonth more,—
She had not died to-day.

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11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
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13 Come Lasses and Lads
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An ELEGY on the GLORY of her SEX
MRS Mary BLAIZE
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