... This would add
about 800,000 to the electorate. They would be, she believed,
middle-aged women of property, than whom she thought they
could not assemble more anti-revolutionary forces."]
_Trojan Leader loquitur_:--
To arm the Amazons against the Greeks,
OVIDIUS hints, proud manhood galls and piques.
No doubt; yet NASO did it in his day,
And we, in ours, who, sorely-pressed, would stay
The rising tide of Revolution, check
Disintegration, of the claws who'd peck
At our political sleeves and platform hearts
Must not be frightened.
"Rummiest of starts,"
The ribald Cockney cries; to see at length,
"The Tory seeking to recruit his strength
Prom those he dubbed, in earlier, scornfuller mood
The crowing hens, the shrieking sisterhood!"
Shade of sardonic SMOLLETT, haunt no more
St. Stephen's precincts; list not to the roar
Of the mad Midland cheers, when FEILDING's plan
Of levelling (moneyed) Woman up to Man
Wins "Constitutional" support and votes
From a "majority" of Tory throats!
Mrs. LYNN LINTON, how this vote must vex,
That caustic censor of her own sweet sex!
Wild Women--_with_ the Suffrage! Fancy that,
O fluent Lady, at tart nick-names pat!
Girls of the Period? They were bad enough,
But what a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
Will Mrs.
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