text:  But is this a reason I only ask you for leaving like an uncultivated waste that holy army of martyrs the spinsterhood of Great Britain? Mr Editor act like a man! Speak up for us! Write up for us! Tell these little writers of little books that however they may think to secure dinners and suppers to themselves by currying favour with the rulers of the roast _the greatest of all women have been_ SINGLE! Tell them of our Virgin Queen Elizabeth--the patroness of their calling the protectress of learning and learned men