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In short, she was a walking calculation,

Miss Edgeworth's novels stepping from their covers,28

Or Mrs. Trimmer's books on education,29

Or "Coelebs' Wife"30 set out in quest of lovers,

Morality's prim personification,

In which not Envy's self a flaw discovers;

To others' share let "female errors fall,"31

For she had not even one—the worst of all.