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Thomas Westwood: Julia

ULIA was lovely and winning- And Julia had lovers in plenty, They outnumbered her years More than twice, it appears- She killed fifty before she was twenty.

Young Harry Had asked her to marry; But Julia could never decide, Thus early, on being a bride; With such ample choice, She would not give her voice, In wedlock so soon to be tied; An though she liked Hal, thought it better to wait, Before she would finally fix on her fate; For though Harry was "every way worthy" to get her, Perhaps she might see some one else she liked better. Hal, discarded by Venus, went over to Mars; And set off to the war in a troop of hussars; To sabres and bullets exposing a life Made wretched to him by the want of a wife.