Another tale for our behalf to tell.
He to a second had himself confessed.
Now, when to hear it eagerly we pressed.
He put us off; but, ere the night was done,
Told us his second, and his sadder one.
THE CLERGYMAN’S SECOND TALE.
Edward and Jane a married couple were,
And fonder she of him or he of her
Was hard to say; their wedlock had begun