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