Chapter 34 No.34

Black was her garb, her rigid rule

Reformed on Benedictine school;

Her cheek was pale, her form was spare;

Vigils, and penitence austere,

Had early quenched the light of youth,

But gentle was the dame, in sooth:

Though, vain of her religious sway,

She loved to see her maids obey;

Yet nothing stern was she in cell,

And the