To be pursued as food for inanition,)

Her charming figure and romantic history

Became a kind of fashionable mystery.

XXVIII.

The women much divided—as is usual

Amongst the sex in little things or great—

Think not, fair creatures, that I mean to abuse you all,

I have always liked you better than I state—

Since I've grown moral, still I must accuse you all

Of being apt to talk at a great rate;