Go seeking to learn what news here are walking,

To hark of what things the people are talking.

I like not this soil, for as I go plodding,

I mark there two, there three, their heads always nodding,

In close secret wise, still whispering together.

If I ask any question, no man doth answer:

But shaking their heads, they go their ways speaking;

I mark how with tears their wet eyes are leaking:

Some strangeness there is, that breedeth this musing.

Well, I will to my masters, and tell of their using,