For they in gaping wonderment abound,
And think, no doubt, she been the greatest wight on ground!
Albeit ne flattery did corrupt the truth,
Ne pompous title did debauch her ear;
Goody, good-woman, n’aunt, forsooth,
Or dame, the sole additions she did hear;
Yet these she challeng’d, these she held right dear;
Ne would esteem him act as mought behove,
Who should not honour’d eld with these revere;
For never title yet so mean could prove,