Ribald Classic: Three French Spices
September, 1983
The Dressmaker and the NunA convent nun once had a loverLiving in the neighboring town.Their greatest problem: to discoverHow, secretly, they might bed down.All wives' or maidens' guile outrunning,There's nothing like the convent cunning:In woman's clothes he personates aSeamstress and so transits the gateway.The ruse had oft been tried before,But it succeeded as of yore.Together in the close-barred cell,The lovers sewed and sowed full well,Unheeding of the time of dayOr how the hours flew away,...