That hope one pain assuages.

"To shew more kindness, we defy

All nations and all ages,

And quite prefer your company

To all the seven sages.

Then hasten home, oh, haste away!

And lengthen not your stages;

We then will sing, and dance and play,

And quit awhile our cages."

She had now taken rank as a popular writer, and thought herself entitled to use corresponding language to her publisher: