although it breedes my strife,

If I were now a Batchelor,

I'de never have a Wife.

Sometime I goe i' th' morning

about my dayly worke,

My wife she will be snorting,

and in her bed she'le lurke;

Untill the Chimes doe goe at Eight,

then she'le begin to wake,

Her mornings draught well spiced straight,