‘You must be mad!—Pray tell me, Are you well?

‘Your understanding must be gone astray;

‘I’ll call the Doctor to you.—Well-a-day!’

The Nun persisted that her mind was right,

That she was in her perfect senses quite;

And Nature, in her wishes, still prevail’d.

Love fill’d her thoughts—and that was all that ail’d.

Again the pious Abbess strove, in vain,

Her wicked wants and wishes to explain;

Bid her take pattern by her sister Prue,