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How nightly she itffent gadding out To dinner ,, concert , w to * 6 ut > With glittering shows fcer mind bewild ' ring , Instead of bringing up her ohiidren !
One thing was worse than all beside , And this , it cannot be denied , Especially her younger days in ,, Was for fet lady quite amazing ; Alas ! with woful fchange , and speedy She'd grown inordinately greedy I And found a talent so incredible
To make away with all things edible That not a crumb were any able To get who dined at the same table . And as the passion grew upon her , All sense of decency and honour Seemed to depart , and she became
Not only glutton without shame , But something worse , I speak with grief , A most unquestionable thief ! If at friends' houses , which was harder , Anything good was in the larder , They needs must watch , or in a minute
My lady ' s fingers would be in it ; Fowl , fish , and flesh , of every sort , Whate v er came in the way , in short , That could her appetite allure , There was not anything secure ; With eating , stealing , stuffing , cramming , She was enough to breed a famine .
That virtue is its own reward , There ' s no occasion to record ; That vice is its own punishment , It will be seen by the event Of this my story . Sad indeed The task , and painful to proceed Through all these stages of disgrace
And when a lady ' s in the case / Especially , ^ —sad to behold In sin and folly getting old , Her , whose simplicity , when young , Had been the theme of every tongue . But if a lady will grow naughty , I can ' t disguise the fact—tior Ought I Truth is thfe object of my sortg . — Now all this stuffing work ere long
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/7/