Will ye yelde and graunt to be this gentmans wife? 35

C. Custance. Ye tolde me he loved me, call ye this love?

M. Mery. He loved a while even like a turtle dove.

C. Custance. Gay love God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde,[581]

M. Mery. I am sory for you: he could love you yet so he coulde.

R. Royster. Nay by cocks precious[582] she shall be none of mine. 40

M. Mery. Why so?

R. Royster. Come away, by the matte she is mankine.[583]

I durst adventure the losse of my right hande,

If shee dyd not slee hir other husbande: