God spede you, maysters, everychone,

Wote ye not whyther my wyfe is gone?

I pray God the dyvell take her,

For all that I do I can not make her,

But she wyll go a gaddynge very myche 5

Lyke an Antony pyg[229] with an olde wyche,

Whiche ledeth her about hyther and thyther;

But, by our lady, I wote not whyther.

But, by goggis[230] blod, were she come home

Unto this my house, by our lady of Crome,[231] 10