Against me,—there 's no question! How does it go?

Is the parentage of my wife demonstrated

Infamous to her wish? Parades she now

Loosed of the cincture that so irked the loin?

Is the last penny extracted from my purse

To mulct me for demanding the first pound

Was promised in return for value paid?

Has the priest, with nobody to court beside,

Courted the Muse in exile, hitched my hap

Into a rattling ballad-rhyme which, bawled