He Imploreth Merry for other Unfortunate Beings.

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.