" Mr. Croker censures the poet for applying the word puella to a lady in Laura's situation, and for talking of the beauty of Lucina.

In another ode, Horace describes Diana as the goddess who assists the "laborantes utero puellas."

Illic Leniades humili regnabat in aula, Leniades magnis nobilitatus avis: Una duas habuit casa cum genitore puellas, Quas Amor undarum fingeret esse deas: Non tamen inculti gelidis latuere sub antris, Accola Danubii qualia saevus habet; Mollia non decrant vacuae solatia vitae, Sive libros poscant otia, sive lyram.

"Ah, Margerymerry Margery!" cried Cuddy, "you tempting little rogue'Et a Margery bellaQuae festiva puella.'