For the lad can keep both our flocks from straying.
PIERS. Thilk same Kid (as I can well devise)
Was too very foolish and unwise;
For on a time, in summer season,
The Goat her dam, that had good reason,
Yode forth abroad unto the green wood,
To brouze, or play, or what she thought good:
But, for she had a motherly care
Of her young son, and wit to beware,
She set her youngling before her knee,