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No . X . Jem ' s Nancy is a preacher , Inspir ed when he is vex'd : She never lacks a sermon , For he is still her text ; She preaches all his faults and flaws ,
And pays them all in kind , But most she hates , and more than all , The faults she cannot find . To show she hates him dearly ,
She bans his hated name ; Then curses , with his kindred , The country whence he came ; And , cursing uncle , aunt , and niece , And grandam in her shroud , Thinks none but he so vile as they ^ And meekly thinks aloud .
When Jem is sad and weary , She cheers him with her growl ,
And howls her all-night sermon , To comfort his poor soul : Th' awaken'd town mistake her strains For music of the spheres ! And he keeps watch and ward till morn , With both thumbs in his ears . Behold how woman teacheth
When woman is untaught ! AVhat is ' t that ails Jem ' s Nancy ? Her fury is not thought . 'Oh Ivight ! that never shin ' st so fair As in a woman ' s mind . Bring hues from heaven , and through her eyes Illumine all mankind I
No . XI
IIf . left me sad , and crossed the deep , A home for me to seek : lie never will come back a ^ ain ; My heart , my heart will break . To see ine toil for scanty food , He could not beur he said , But promised to come back again , His faithful Ann to wed .
Bad men had turned into a hell The country of his birth ; And he is gone , who should have staid , To make it heaven on earth :
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/22/