Snodgrass, the poet-treasurer of thought,

And singer of an unexpressive song,

And Winkle, Nimrod's peer. These four set forth,

Due to return the seventh day from hence;

But I that selfsame hour came hitherward,

And since have heard no news of Court at all.

Ber. Thus then I briefly tell thee what hath pass'd.

There came last week with 'plaining to the Court

A comely widow, who made oath that one

Who sojourned as a lodger in her house