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She flrtid feels rio prudish fear Wheti this child of shame draws near ; She Who bids her not despair , For Gtod will hear repenting- prayY ; She who does her alms unknown , She nrho bends at Mercy ' s throne , Hidden all from human eye * Trust me , —this is Chanty .
But a little French Milliner , fill'd with grimace , Takes Charity ' s name and stands forth in her place , Flaunting- abroad in a furbelow'd gown She s the wonder and pride and the belle of the town ;—O how she sighs at a story of woe I
A sigh ' s so becoming to bosom of snow—Oh ! how she begs , looking pretty the while , Till hearts , and subscriptions , are gain'd by her smile ; She sits in her parlour , surrounded by beaux , And looks so divine making poor people ' s clothes , And fans of goose-feathers , and shoes made of scraps , And fire-screens and needle-books , babies and caps ; She's so tender and busy , —she levies a war
'Gainst the gentlemen s hearts at a Faney Bazaar . Oh ! Charity daunts it in feather and plume , And smiles like an angel—in rouge and perfume . She flirts at her booth , she ' s the gayest of belles * And hardly she bargains , and dearly she sells ; And customers wonder , that lady so free ,
So kind to the poor , and so tender should be ! A truce to your wonder ; she he « ds not the poor , If once she is married she ' s tender no more . Ah , me ! that such labour , such feeling and care Should all be bestow'd uporl Vanity Fair ; And deeper the error and darker the shame That this is transacted in Charity ' s name !'—p . 54- —56 .
1 The error' and * the shame , ' we repeat , are in the opinions , institutions , and modes of education , which condemn the sex to ignorance and frivolity . Let the Curate , when he writes again , and soou may that be , level his bitterest sarcasm at the cant so prevalent in society about * blue-stockings , ' c learned ladies , * ' female politicians , ' * popes in petUcoafcs / and all the rest of the
slang by which a female is frightened from showing that she has a soul . No great harm , perhaps , will be done meanwhile , if his wit should be so caustic as to burn a few fair fingers ; but such a writer as he is oUght toot to stop there . He should teach them that to play , dance , read novtels , do charities , and , as the aim and crown of all , get married , and delegate all thought , improvement , and action to their lords attd masters , is riot the end of their intellectual and moral being ; and he should teach the world that the times are gone by when such a system can continue to be the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 543, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/39/
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