"She would see then a priest? with her wish I'll comply;
But alone it must be, for should you remain by,
Any facts I would prove she would surely deny,
Though of Mary's great abbey the Primate am I."
"Well, if ever!" said Looney, with a wild kind of stare,
As he bolted inside, crying, "Meg! quick—a chair!
There's the Abbot of Mary's a-standing out there!"
Now that Meg was not well might be very well seen,
She'd been waking too late where she'd yesternight been,
For her eyes were as red as a lobster fresh boiled,