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EPIGRAM CCXXII.
[The love-sick maid, in Bedlam's cells who pines]
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.
The love-sick maid, in Bedlam's cells who pines,
Weaves a straw coronet; and a princess shines:—
While in high life our spinster daughters ape,
In mock protuberant bulk, a mother's shape:—
Say, between frenzy's crown, and fashion's pad,
Is madness prouder? or is pride more mad?
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