But fetching a Ladder, that unhappy time,
It was his hard luck with his Eggs for to Climb;
These Ladders prove fatal to many a Man,
And are undone by them now and then;
So was this poor Man undone by a Fall,
Down comes the Basket, Man, Eggs and all.
There lay the poor Man with a fall almost Lame,
His Cock-Pits and Gallants, and Cocks of the Game;
The loosing of this grieved him to the Life,