Posted by Laon on August 22, 1998 at 01:39:52:

In Reply to: No. It's NOT by Mary Wollstonecraft. NOT "cribbed" by her husband, either... posted by Laon on August 22, 1998 at 01:12:20:

Maie was one of Bysshe Shelley's petnames for Mary Shelley. Two others were "Pecksie" and "The Dormouse"...

All three appear in one of Shelley's less - shall we say - important poems, scribbled in one of his notebooks, but not found in the Oxford (or any other) Complete Poetical Works:

"All on her hind legs the Dormouse stood
In a wild and mingled mood
Of Maieishness and Pecksietude"

All together: Awwwwwwwww!

Cheers

Laon
BTW Shelley was from Sus, and the fact that he was prepared to rhyme "stood", "mood" and "-tude" tell you something about his accent.

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