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AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people all, with one accord
Last Line: She had not died to-day.
Variant Title(s): Mrs. Mary Blaize;elegy On Madam Blaize


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

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

She strove the neighborhood to please,
With manner wondrous winning;
She never followed wicked ways --
Unless when she was sinning.

At church, in silk and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size,
She never slumbered in her pew --
But when she shut her eyes.

Her love was sought, I do aver,
My twenty beaux, or more;
The king himself has followed her --
When she has walked before.

But now her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all,
Her doctors found, when she was dead --
Her last disorder mortal.

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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