Thus what with Fleas and with the seuerall prates

Of th' officer, and his Ass-sociats

We arose to goe, but Fortune bade us stay:

The Constable had stolne our oares away,

And borne them thence a quarter of a mile

Quite through a Lane beyond a gate and stile;

And hid them there to hinder my depart,

For which I wish'd him hang'd with all my heart.

A plowman (for us) found our Oares againe,

Within a field well fil'd with Barley Graine.