My Tale is of a Cock, as ye may hear,

That took his counsel of his wife with sorrow,

To walken in the yard upon the morrow

That he had met the dream, as I you told.

Womenne’s counsels be full often cold;

Womenne’s counsels brought us first to woe,

And made Adam from Paradise to go,

There as he was full merry and well at ease:

But for I n’ot to whom I might displease

If I counsel of women wouldé blame—