A little turn for mischief you might trace
Also thereon,—but that's not much; we find
Few females without some such gentle leaven,
For fear we should suppose us quite in Heaven.
L.
I have not heard she was at all poetic,
Though once she was seen reading the Bath Guide,[788]
And Hayley's Triumphs,[789] which she deemed pathetic,
Because she said her temper had been tried
So much, the bard had really been prophetic