Now I have a neat cottage, and 'tis my intent,
Ted, to let it to you at a moderate rent.
And as to the Abbey, you'll then be so nigh,
Its garden will work for your spare hours supply."
"Hurrah! thanks! your rev'rence!" cried Ted with delight;
"I am grateful, contented, and happy now quite.
Sure I'll back with you now, sir, and see what it's like,
Then with pleasure the bargain I'll readily strike."
"Then with me at once, and your wife, if she'd see
The dwelling I speak of, can come too with me.