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THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rude querist! My feelings your question enrages
Last Line: "till I know what is his who will make me a bride."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Aging; Census; Rudeness; Women; Bad Manners


"RUDE querist! my feelings your question enrages—
To ask a young woman like me what her age is!
Twenty-five, Sir, it may be, about that or less."
"And what the religion, ma'am, which you profess?"
"Sir! I shall not on any persuasion decide
Till I know what is his who will make me a bride."





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