She said, "Yes!" with a sweet smiling glance;

All night with no other lady

But Catskin, our young lord would dance.

"Pray tell me, fair maid, where you live?"

For now was the sad parting time;

But she no other answer would give,

Than this distich of mystical rhyme,—

Kind Sir, if the truth I must tell,

At the sign of the Basin of Water I Dwell.

Then she flew from the ball-room, and put