For in the house all lying soiled are they.

“Now for yourself it is no more than fit

That, when the councillors at council sit,

In clean array among your lords you go:

Also your house has five sons born in it,

“Two of them wedded now, but three are yet

Young bachelors, who evermore must get

New-washed attire when to the dance they go;

And now on all this charge my mind is set.”

So spake she, for her mouth for maiden shame