Let me love thee, darling, do!’

‘Vat is dish?’ the bailiff mutter’d,

Rushing in with fury wild;

‘Ish your muffins so vell butter’d

Dat you darsh insult ma shild?’

‘Honorable my intentions,

Good Abednego, I swear!

And I have some small pretensions,

For I am a Baron’s heir.

If you’ll only clear my credit,