Sheele persecute the poore wit-beaten man, 20

And so bebang him with dry bobs and scoffes,

When he is downe, most cowardly, good faith,

As I have pittied the poore patient.

There came a farmers sonne a wooing to her,

A proper man, well landed too he was, 25

A man that for his wit need not to aske

What time a yeere twere good to sow his oates

Nor yet his barley, no, nor when to reape,

To plowe his fallowes, or to fell his trees,