Or els say 'no, forsooth,' or 'I, forsooth.'

If I said 'no, forsooth,' I lyed, forsooth:

To lye upon my selfe were deadly sinne, 135

Therefore I will speake truth, and shame the divell.

Father, when first I heard you name a husband,

At that same very name my spirits quickned.

Dispaire before had kild them, they were dead:

Because it was my hap so long to tarry, 140

I was perswaded I should never marry;

And, sitting sowing, thus upon the ground