Better, I think, though priest and loveless both!

"—How was it that a wife, young, innocent,

And stranger to your person, wrote this page?"—

"—She wrote it when the Holy Father wrote

The bestiality that posts through Rome,

Pat in his mouth by Pasquin." "Nor perhaps

Did you return these answers, verse and prose,

Signed, sealed and sent the lady? There 's your hand!"

"—This precious piece of verse, I really judge,

Is meant to copy my own character,