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.