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Charades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2020

Jane Austen
Edited by
Janet Todd  and
Linda Bree
Janet Todd
Affiliation:
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge and University of Aberdeen
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Summary

1.

When my 1st is a task to a young girl of spirit And my second confines her to finish the piece How hard is her fate! but how great is her merit If by taking my whole she effect her release!

Jane

2.

Divided, I’m a Gentleman In public Deeds and Powers United, I’m a Man who oft That Gentleman devours.

Jane

3.

You may lie on my first, by the side of a stream, And my second compose to the Nymph you adore But if when you’ve none of my whole, her esteem And affection diminish, think of her no more.

Jane.

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Later Manuscripts , pp. 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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