‘Lady!’ the wretch replied, with savage grin,
‘Apply to him that let the lady in: 400
What! you would go, I take it, to the Dean,
And tell him what your ladyship has seen’.
“When thus the fool exposed the knave, I saw }
The means of holding such a mind in awe, }
And gain my safety by his dread of law. }
“‘Alas!’ I cried, ‘I fear the Dean like you,
For I transgress, and am in trouble too.
If it be known that we are here, as sure