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Her friends , at first , they did opine It was a good and healthy sign , And everywhere this met your ears— ^ € well her ladyship appears ! > She has not looked so well for years . ' J But afterwards , when time had wrought A more exceeding change , they thought
All was not quite so well perhaps ; They viewed with pain the frequent naps She fell into—so long , so deep . They did not seem like natural sleep ; Too high a bloom her cheek bespread- — It could not be a healthy red ; Her figure was not merely plump ,.
' Twas gross and shapeless , a sheer lump Of bloated flesh ! Nor longer could These symptoms be misunderstood . That people , when , to shame insensible , They act in ways so indefensible , Must suffer for such sad propensities—Quite plain to all who ' ve any sense it is . Some even then foresaw her fate .
And prayed her , ere it was too late , To mend her habits—Jive more quiet—And to adopt a cooling diet ; That to disease , not health , she owed The blood exuberant that flowed
In wanton currents through her veins , They took extraordinary pains To show her . But I grieve to say It somehow never was her way To take advice—much less rebuke ; At times like , these she fairly shook With passion , stamped the ground , cried , screamed ,
And hke a very maniac seemed . Nor would her noble spouse be still , But seemed to take it quite as ill . ' Audacious wretches ! * she would say , * To dare to talk , to > rne this way i 4 vagabond , *!! responded lie , This is an iimrftftae to fcua / r- « .
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