To bring back lustre to her eyes;

In vain she tries her paste and creams

To smooth her skin, or hide its seams;

Her country beaux and city cousins,

Lovers no more, flew off by dozens;

The squire himself was seen to yield,

And ev'n the captain quit the field.

"By turns a slattern or a belle."—p. 232.

Poor madam, now condemn'd to hack