urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:	edition	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheCharactersoftheChristCrossRowBya.English.1716_chcc:1	eceptext	
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.