Here Is A Tale For Gossips And Chaste People: There Lived A Woman Once, A Straight-Laced Lady, Whose Only Love Was Slander. Nothing Shady Escaped Her Vulture Eye. Like Some Prim Steeple Her Course Of Life Pointed To Heaven Ever; And Woe Unto The Sinner, Girl Or Woman, Whom Love Undid. She Was Their Fiercest Foeman. No Circumstance Excused. Misfortune, Never.... As She Had Lived She Died. The Mourners Gathered: Parson And Preacher, This One And Another, And Many Gossips Of Most Proper Carriage. Her Will Was Read. And Then... A Child Was Fathered. Fat Lechery Had His Day.... She'd Been A Mother. A Man Was Heir.... There'D Never Been A Marriage.