The friends—all plead in vain;
Love calls—I brave each adverse power
Of peril and of pain.”
Mrs. Percy died on the 31st December, 1806. Her remains were interred within the Cathedral of Dromore. Several poems were published on her decease in the Gentleman’s Magazine at that time. One of them, descriptive of the graces of this excellent lady, reads thus:—
“Within the precincts of this silent cell
Distinguished Percy’s sacred relicks dwell;
Whose youthful charms adorn’d the courtly scene,
And won the favour of a British Queen
Whose moral excellence, and virtues rare,
Shone as conspicuous as her face was fair.