Said t'other whether it be this or that,

If here again his face he ever show,

A pretty trick in turn we'll let him know.

WHILE thus the couple sought their plot to frame,

A convent porter with a burden came,

For her who kept the stores of ev'ry kind,

Depositary of the whole designed.

'Twas merely a pretence, as I am told:

The things were not required for young or old;

But she much appetite had got in truth,