Richard and Nelly: An Epigram

QUOTH Richard in jest, looking wistly at Nelly,
Methinks child you seem something round in the belly :
Nell answer'd him snapishly. How can that be ?
My husband has been more than two years at sea.
Thy husband ! quoth Dick, why that matter was, carry'd
Most secretly, Nell, I ne'er thought thou wer't marry'd.