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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.1	head	The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs —
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.1	l	Great D draws near---the Duchess sure is come,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.2	l	Open the doors of the withdrawing-room:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.3	l	Her daughters decked most daintily I see,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.4	l	The dowager grows a perfect double D.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.5	l	E enters next and with her Eve appears.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.6	l	Not like yon dowager depressed with years:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.7	l	What ease and elegance her person grace,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.8	l	Bright beaming as the evening-star her face.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.9	l	Queen Esther next---how fair e'en after death;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.10	l	Then one faint glimpse of Queen Elizabeth;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.11	l	No more, our Esthers now are nought but Hetties,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.12	l	Elizabeths all dwindled into Betties.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.13	l	In vain you think to find them under E,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.14	l	They're all diverted into H and B.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.15	l	F follows fast the fair---and in his rear
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.16	l	See folly, fashion, foppery straight appear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.17	l	All with fantastic clues, fantastic clothes,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.18	l	With fans and flounces, fringe and furbelows.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.19	l	Here Grub-street geese presume to joke and jeer,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.20	l	All, all but Grannam Osborne's <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Gazetteer</emph>.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.21	l	High heaves his hugeness H: methinks we see
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.22	l	Henry the Eighth's most monstrous majesty.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.23	l	But why on such <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">mock</emph> grandeur should we dwell?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.24	l	H mounts to heaven and H descends to hell.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.25	l	As H the Hebrew found, so I the Jew:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.26	l	See Isaac, Joseph, Jacob pass in view.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.27	l	The walls of old Jerusalem appear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.28	l	See Israel and all Judah thronging there. [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.29	l	P pokes his head out, yet has not a pain:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.30	l	Like Punch he peeps, but soon pops in again.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.31	l	Pleased with his pranks, the pisgys calls him Puck,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.32	l	Mortals he loves to prick and pinch and pluck.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.33	l	Now a pert prig, he perks upon your face;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.34	l	Now peers, pores, ponders with profound grimace;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.35	l	Now a proud prince, in pompous purple dressed,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.36	l	And now a player, a peer, a pimp or priest,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.37	l	A pea, a pin, in a perpetual round,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.38	l	Now seems a penny, and now shows a pound.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.39	l	Like perch or pike in pond you see him come;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.40	l	He in plantations hangs like pear or plum,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.41	l	Pippin or peach, then perches on the spray,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.42	l	In form of parrot, pye or popinjay.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.43	l	P, Proteus-like, all tricks, all shapes can show,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.44	l	The pleasantest person in the Christ-cross Row. [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.45	l	As K a king, Q represents a queen,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.46	l	And seems small difference the sounds between.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.47	l	K as a man with hoarser accent speaks;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.48	l	In shriller notes Q like a female squeaks.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.49	l	Behold, K struts as might a king become;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.50	l	Q draws her train along the drawing-room.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.51	l	Slow follow all the quality of state:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.52	l	Queer Queensberry only does refuse to wait. [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.53	l	Thus great R reigns in town, while different far,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.54	l	Rests in retirement <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">little</emph> rural R;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.55	l	Remote from cities lives in lone retreat,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.56	l	With rooks and rabbit-burrows round his seat.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.57	l	S sails the swan slow down the silver stream. [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.58	l	So, big with weddings, waddles W,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.59	l	And brings all womankind before your view:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.60	l	A wench, a wife, a widow and a w[hor]e,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1.2.61	l	With woe behind and wantonness before.