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    44 Bine-Stocking Revels;

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    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    " All ! welcome home , Martineau , turning statistics To stories , and puzzling your philogamystics ! I own I can ' t see , any more than dame Nature , Why love should await dear good Harriet ' s dictature ! But great is earth ' s want of some love-legislature .

    " And , Mitford , all hail ! with a head that for green From your glad village crowners can hardly be seen . " And with tliat he shone on it , and set us all blinking ; And yet at her kind heart sat tragedy , thinking . Then Montagu , —Eleanora Louisa ! Was ever name finer ' twixt Naples and Pisa ? But not in name only the lady hath merit ; Her thoughts have an eye , and the right inward spirit .

    And dear Lady Morgan ! Look , look how she comes , With her pulses all beating for freedom , like drums , — So Irish , so modish , so mirtish _, so wild , So committing herself , as she talks , like a child , So trim yet so easy , polite yet big-hearted , That truth and she , try all she can , won ' t be parted . She'll put on your fashions , your latest new air , And then talk so frankly , she'll make you all stare : —

    Mrs Hall may say , " Oh , " and Miss Edgeworth say _" Fie But my lady will know all the what and the why . Her books , a like mixture , are so very clever , The god himself swore he could read them for ever ; Plot , character , freakishness , all are so good ; And the heroine ' s herself , playing tricks in a hood . So he kiss'd her , and call'd her " eternal good wench ;" But ask'd , why the devil she spoke so much French ?

    " Mrs Norton . " The god , stepping forward a pace , Kiss'd her hand in return , with respect in his face , And observ'd , " The unfair sex will learn their own duty Some day , and grow worthier such talents and beauty . But why give the world ( said he ) nothing but sighs ?

    You best prove your merits , when cheerful and wise Be still so ; be just to the depth of your eyes . " Then he turn'd to us all , and repeated , in tones Of approval so earnest as thrill'd to one ' s bones , Some remarks of hers ( bidding us learn them all too ) On the art of distinguishing false love from true . After which , as he seated her near him . he cried ,

    u 'Twas a large heart , and loving , that gave us this guide . " ( 16 ) The following is the passage alluded to . It is from one of the lady ' s novels , but I cannot remember which , having made the extract some time ago , without adding the reference . As it is a female who speaks , the caution is given with respect-

    44 Bine-Stocking Revels;

    44 Bine-Stocking Revels ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/42/