A remedy like this would be absurd,

If, like old death, it had a haggard look,

And you designed to get by hook or crook.

A hundred secrets you retain at ease;

Can one so greatly shock and you displease?—

You talk at random, Agnes, she replied;

Now, would you for the remedy decide,

Upon your word, if you were in my place?—

Yes, madam, said the nun, and think it grace;

Still more I'd do, if necessary thought;