...^handmaids wait the throne : alike in place Eat diffp f " ^ae trone : ^ut differing far in figure an d in face Here stood Ill-nature like an ancient maid Her wrinkled form in black and white arra/d: eFr7e^ ^ ™oniingsf nights, and noons, heO There Affectation, with a sickly mienf°°J Shows...

...air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pau1 at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids...! With store of prayers for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons. There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in...

...blows. Here in a grotto shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side,...ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayM, With store of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with...

...blows. Here in a grotto shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. THB POEMS Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face....

...20 Here in a grotto, shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side,...: With store of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons. 30 There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows...

...blows. Here in a grotto shelter'd close; from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head "With store of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons^ Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons....

...blows. Here in a grotto shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side,...There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen ; Practised to lisp, and hang the head aside, Faints into airs, and languishes...

...blows. Here in a grotto shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head With store of prayers, for mornings, nights, and uoona Her hand is fill'd ; her bosom with lampoons....

...20 Here in a grotto, shelter'd close from air, And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head1. Two handmaids wait the throne : alike in place, But diff'ring far in figure and in face. Here...

...you 'em ; Your cold, of course, is a catarrh, Your head-ache is a hemicranium." — Moore. *' Spleen sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and megrim at her head." — Pope. MENACE, menacer, F. From the Latin minacice, threats — or from minax, threatening. MENIAL....