Imparts the fact so long repress’d,

And glads, reluctantly, her breast.

The news he stated wak’d her fear;

What gave delight at first to hear,

One apprehension turn’d to pain—

She trembled for her husband’s brain.

“Can it be true?” cried she, misdeeming;

“Dear Whang, too surely thou art dreaming:

Try, recollect thyself, good man—”

“Tut, hussey! why, I’ll shew the pan: