Where 's Peter Genesheim thy partner? I ask

Why, cloistered up still in thy room, the pale youth

Slaves tongue-tied—thy trade brooks no tattling forsooth!

No less he, thy famulus, suffers entrapping,

Succumbs to good fellowship: barrel a-broach

Runs freely nor needs any subsequent tapping:

Quoth Peter, "That room, none but I dare approach,

Holds secrets will help me to ride in my coach."

He prattles, we profit: in brief, he assures

Thou hast taught him to speak so that all men may hear