Marry the one you love, and God will also love you.
If you become a Recollet at St. Francis convent,
I will go to the Calvary and there become a nun.
There we will hear together the bells of our two convents,
And there we will be singing the praises of our Lord.
There we will be singing, with our lifted voices,
The Gloria in Excelsis and the Salve Regina.
The hero of the piece entitled I will be neither Priest nor Monk is made of more determined stuff, and demands that his books shall be thrown into the fire, and liberty given him to marry the object of his love, or else he will die:—