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He Imploreth Merry For Other Unfortunate Beings.

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Now heaven in mercy be kind to the wretches     Who stay on the earth like this Mrs. Merdle!     More wretched than ever a wretch on the hurdle     Was drawn by all England's official Jack Ketches;     More wretched, if can be, at church on a Sunday     A woman, who worships, than God, more her dress,     Would be if she heard or e'en thought Mrs. Grundy     Would sneer at the set of a bonnet or tress;     Or say that she thought Miss Freelove's new pattern     Of laces, or collars, or yard flowing sleeves,     Looked more like the dress of a real Miss Slattern     And not "so becoming"'s the first one of Eve's.

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