L.

I have not heard she was at all poetic, Though once she was seen reading the _Bath Guide_,[788] And Hayley's _Triumphs_,[789] which she deemed pathetic, Because she said _her temper_ had been tried So much, the bard had really been prophetic Of what she had gone through with--since a bride. But of all verse, what most ensured her praise Were sonnets to herself, or _bouts rimés_.