Bailey, I’ll learn thy cook to turn a spit.

[Exit, right. Enter, left, Joannes.]

CHAUCER

[To Ploughman.]

Aye, man, but weather is the ploughman’s wife

To take for worse or better. If thy loam

Be thin, and little snow, which is the best

Manure, then thou must dung thy furrows twice

’Twixt Michelmas and March.

PLOUGHMAN