Stalk'd round the room, put out the light,

And shook the curtains round the bed.

No cruel uncle kept her land;

No tyrant father forced her hand;

She had no vixen virgin-aunt,

Without whose aid she could not eat,

And yet who poison'd all her meat,

With gibe and sneer and taunt.

Yet of the heroine she'd a share:

She saved a lover from despair,