Who dwelt within the cloister, two fishes every year:
They might have been contented!
Two sturgeons—two great fat ones; and then this law was set,
That one of them should yearly be taken in a net:
They might have been contented!
The other swam away then until next year came round,
Then with a new companion he punctually was found:
They might have been contented!
So then again they caught one, and served him in the dish,
And regularly caught they, year in, year out, a fish: