| J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921. | | | | Written in her brother’s Coke upon Littleton | | By Judith Madan (c. 1750) |
| | | O THOU, who labour’st in this rugged mine, | |
| Mayst thou to gold th’ unpolished ore refine! | |
| May each dark page unfold its haggard brow! | |
| Doubt not to reap, if thou can’st bear to plough. | |
| To tempt thy care, may, each revolving night, | 5 |
| Purses and maces swim before thy sight! | |
| From hence in times to come, advent’rous deed! | |
| May’st thou essay to look and speak like Mead! | |
| When the black bag and rose no more shall shade | |
| With martial air the honours of thy head; | 10 |
| When the full wig thy visage shall enclose, | |
| And only leave to view thy learnèd nose. | |
| Safely may’st thou defy beaux, wits, and scoffers, | |
| While tenants, in fee-simple, stuff thy coffers. | | | | |
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