Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street.

St. Giles, its fair varieties expand;

Till at the last in slow-drawn cart she went

To execution. Dost thou ask her crime?

She whipped two female ’prentices to death,

And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind,

Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes!

Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine

Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog

The little Spartans; such as erst chastised