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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.

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

She strove the neighbourhood to please,
With manners wond'rous winning;
And never follow'd wicked ways-
Unless when she was sinning.

At church, in silks and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size :
She never slumber'd in her pew
But when she shut her eyes.

Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The king himself has follow'd her —
When she has walk'd before.

But now her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all :

The doctors found, when she was dead-
Her last disorder mortal.

Let us lament, in sorrow sore,

For Kent-Street well may say,

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That had she liv'd a twelve-month more

She had not died to-day.

Printed by Thomas Richardson, Derby.

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And all the Birds in the air Fell to sighing and sobbing,

When they heard the bell toll

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THE

DEATH AND BURIAL

OF

COCK ROBIN:

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THAT BIRD, &c.

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