An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex

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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]
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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.]

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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