"'Tis the Abbot," he thought,
"And I now shall be caught,
Like a frog or a toad in a rat-trap.
In this cupboard I'll go,
And mind, dame, you say 'No,'
If about me he happen to ask.
'Tis really provoking,
And far beyond joking!
To evade him 's become quite a task."
O Conscience! how truly the proverb declares,