One was a female, who had grievous ill

Wrought in revenge, and she enjoy’d it still:

With death before her, and her fate in view,

Unsated vengeance in her bosom grew:

Sullen she was and threat’ning; in her eye

Glared the stern triumph that she dared to die:

But first a being in the world must leave -

’Twas once reproach; ’twas now a short reprieve.

She was a pauper bound, who early gave

Her mind to vice and doubly was a slave: