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Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Charles Wentworth Dilke, [February 1833]
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[p.m. Feb., 1833.]
CHRISTIAN NAMES OF WOMEN
(TO EDITH S——)
In Christian world Mary the garland wears!
Rebecca sweetens on a Hebrew’s ear;
Quakers for pure Priscilla are more clear;
And the light Gaul by amorous Ninon swears.
Among the lesser lights how Lucy shines!
What air of fragrance Rosamund throws round!
How like a hymn doth sweet Cecilia sound!
Of Marthas, and of Abigails, few lines
Have bragg’d in verse. Of coarsest household stuff
Should homely Joan be fashioned. But can
You Barbara resist, or Marian?
And is not Clare for love excuse enough?
Yet, by my faith in numbers, I profess,
These all, than Saxon Edith, please me less.

MANY thanks for the life you have given us—I am perfectly satisfied. But if you advert to it again, I give you a delicate hint. Barbara S—— shadows under that name Miss Kelly’s early life, and I had the Anecdote beautifully from her.