He praised for dancing ring-around-the-rose-tree,

When honest wives are damned for showing their ankles?

A fig for her!—What, him! a walking hay-cock

That woos a knitting-needle of a nun!

And me! that when I was to home in Bath

Walked into kirk before the beadle’s wife:

My betters? Wait until I win my bet!

FRIAR

What bet?

ALISOUN