Though sometimes she had other eyes

Than those, uplifted to the skies,

Leering most oddly!

And Scandal, ever busy, thought

She rarely practic’d—what she taught.

Her dress was always stiff brocade,

With laces broad and dear;

Fine Cobwebs! that would thinly shade

Her shrivell’d cheek of sallow hue,

While, like a Spider, her keen eye,