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An ELEGY on the GLORY of her SEX
Mrs Mary BLAIZE
R. Caldecott's PICTURE Books
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.]
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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;
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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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Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books
"The humour of Randolph Caldecott's drawings is simply irresistible,
no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without
laughing."
_In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates._
1 John Gilpin
2 The House that Jack Built
3 The Babes in the Wood
4 The Mad Dog
5 Three Jovial Huntsmen
6 Sing a Song for Sixpence
7 The Queen of Hearts
8 The Farmer's Boy
9 The Milkmaid
10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting
11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate
13 Come Lasses and Lads
14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c.
15 Mrs. Mary Blaize
16 The Great Panjandrum Himself
_The above selections are also issued in Four Volumes, square crown
4to, attractive binding, red edges. Each containing four different
books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches._
1 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1
2 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2
3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book
4 The Panjandrum Picture Book
_And also_
_In Two Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth gilt, each containing eight
different books, with their Coloured Pictures and numerous Outline
Sketches._
R. Caldecott's Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1
R. Caldecott's Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2
Miniature Editions,
_size 5-1/2 by 4-1/2. Art Boards, flat back._
TWO VOLUMES
ENTITLED
R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOKS
Nos. 1 and 2,
_Each containing coloured plates and numerous
Outline Sketches in the text._
_Crown 4to, picture covers._
Randolph Caldecott's Painting Books. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.
_Each with Outline Pictures to Paint, and Coloured Examples._
_Oblong 4to, cloth._
A Sketch Book of R. Caldecott's.
_Containing numerous sketches in Colour and black and white_
: LONDON : Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. : & NEW YORK :
_The Published Prices of the above Picture Books can be obtained of all
Booksellers or from the Illustrated Catalogue of the Publishers._
PRINTED AND COPYRIGHTED BY EDMUND EVANS, LTD.,
ROSE PLACE, GLOBE ROAD, LONDON, E.1. ]
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