Judged her own cause, and bade the youth adieu!
The lover begg’d, insisted, urged his pain,
His brother wrote to threaten and complain;
Her sister reasoning proved the promise made,
Lucy appealing to a parent pray’d;
But all opposed the event that she design’d,
And all in vain - she never changed her mind;
But coldly answer’d in her wonted way,
That she “would rule, and Lucy must obey.”
With peevish fear, she saw her health decline,