3770Night's middle age invited to their pillows,

But tell I dare not how the lovers rested,

Whether co-sheeting was allowed as fit,

Monastic vows dispensing well with it.

But this I say, there was but one guest-room,

Hanged with a pentice cloth spoke age enough;

The spiders here had one continued loom:

Here rats and mice did play at blind man's blough.

Their bed had many tasters, but no tester,

Their bedding ushered in thin-sided Easter.