’Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen.’
Prior had, at an early period of her life, depainted her irrepressible temper:
‘Thus Kitty, beautiful and young,
And wild as colt untamed,
Bespoke the fair from whom she sprang,
By little rage inflamed;
Inflamed with rage at sad restraint,
Which wise mamma ordained;
And sorely vexed to play the saint,