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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]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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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 monstr