Thence wise men conster,[1418] more then the cocke doth crow.”

51.

While thus hee spake, I held within myne arme

Shore’s wife, the tender peece, to keepe mee warme:

Fye on adultry, fye on leacherous lust,

Marke in mee, yee nobles all, God’s iudgements iust:

A pandare, murtherer, and adulterer thus,

Onely such death I dye, as I ne blushe:

Now, least my dame mought feare appall[1419] my hart:

With eger moode vp in my bed I starte.