If we had water for to drink,

We should not care for washing then,

Into these flames and filthy stink,

We burn with fire unto the doom:

Upbraid me then, good wife, no more,

For first when I heard of the name,

I knew thou hast such names in store,

Would make the devil to think shame.

Forsooth, Sir thief, thou art to blame,

If I had time now for to bide