Here is nought whereon to feast.”
Thereupon the mouse did say:
“Be not angry, sir, I pray:
In me a lodger plain you see,
And I have brought my food with me.”
XIII
The Penitent. By the same author[[70-1]].
A rich, but not a holy man,
Grew old, and to repent began;
So, to perform a pious deed