What would the world—and yet she judged them fools

Who let the world’s suggestions be their rules; 440

What would her friends—Yet in her own affairs

It was her business to decide, not theirs.—

Adieu! then, sir,” she added; “thus you find }

The changeless purpose of a steady mind, }

In one now left alone, but to her fate resign’d.” }

The marriage follow’d; and th’ experienced dame

Consider’d what the conduct that became

A thrice-devoted lady—She confess’d