Whether she was a "Mother," I know not,

Or whether they were "Maids" who called her Mother;

But this is her Seraglio title, got

I know not how, but good as any other;

So Cantemir[343] can tell you, or De Tott:[344]Her office was to keep aloof or smother

All bad propensities in fifteen hundred

Young women, and correct them when they blundered.