To sweep you truth down! Curse your women too,

Your insolent wives and daughters, that fire up

Or faint away if a male hand squeeze theirs,

Yet, to encourage Sludge, may play with Sludge

As only a "medium," only the kind of thing

They must humor, fondle ... oh, to misconceive

Were too preposterous! But I 've paid them out!

They 've had their wish—called for the naked truth,

And in she tripped, sat down and bade them stare:

They had to blush a little and forgive!