Excerpt from Complete Poems, Vol. 1 of 2: Edited With Pref, Essay on Life and Writings, and NotesIt may be needful to note that by the words 'the child wife' (p. In relation to Mrs. Elizabeth Drury, is meant the ideal child-wife (so too child-woman and child-mother) of the Poet. Mrs.' was then and long subsequently used to de signate young ladies of quality or gentry marriageable but nu married. The youthful Elizabeth Drury, it need scarcely be stated, was not married; and as 'mrs.' (in the modern sense) sounds oddly, perhaps it is well thus to record the fact.

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