Quicquid loquantur, ut effœminantur, ita effantur, &c.
Somtime women were put in great blame,
Men said they could not their tunges atame;
But men take vpon theim nowe all the shame,
With skolding and sklaundering make their tungs lame.
Novarum rerum cupidissimi, captatores, delatores, adulatores, invigilatores, deliratores, &c. id genus. li. ille.
For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam,[577] what newis in Wales,
What shippis are sailing to Scalis Mails?
And all is not worth a couple of nut shalis: