A man, then, wrote it. If you men will write,
We wives will keep ye busy. Read’s a snack.
CHAUCER
[Pretending to read.]
“Whoso that builds his mansion all of mallows,
Whoso that spurs his blind horse over the fallows,
Whoso that lets his wife seek shrines and hallows,
Is worthy to be hanged on the gallows.”
ALISOUN
Chuck that to another dog. My man is dead.