I care not, if I be married before to-morrow at noon,

If marriage be a thing that so may be had:

How say you, maid? to marry me will ye be glad?

Out of doubt, I believe, it is some excellent treasure,

Else to the same belongs abundant pleasure.

Yet with mine ears I have heard some say,—

That ever I was married, now cursed be the day!

Those be they, that with curs’d wives be matched,

That husband for hawks’ meat of them is up snatched,

Head broke with a bedstaff, face be all-to scratched: