1. Your slander of me, when slander
Is not your wont, is but guile.

2. Some hidden spite moved you to fetch
This ignorant talk, this facile tale.

3. You are, I've no doubt, Kin to Suspicion;
Rumour was quick to assail.

4. The knots untie, to mask the facts.
Rarely useful, quibbles that veil!

5. Too late! Gone things will not return.
Rumours about you already prevail.

6. One who would hide what she desires
Is like a lamp in the night, all pale.

7. The Scripture, Torah, Gospel cry out
Against the spite your words exhale.

8. My brother Suspicion's taunting words
Are revelation, not interpretable tale.