I cannot, I;—no, no;—it will not be;

This is the cause that I could never yet

Hang on their sleeves, that weigh, as thou maist see,

A chippe of chaunce more than a pound of wit;

This makes me at home to hunt and hawke,

And in foul weather at my book to sit;

In frost and snowe, then with my bowe stalke;

No man doth marke whereso I ryde or goe;

In lustie leas at libertie I walke.

Towards the conclusion, he says he does not spend his time among those who have their wits taken away with Flanders cheer and "beastliness:"