A chestnut which hath larded mony a swine,

Whose skins I wear to fend me from the cold;

A poplar grey, and with a kerved seat,

Under whose shade I solace in the heat;

And thence can see gang out and in my neat.

Twa trilland brooks, each from his spring doth meet,

And make a river to refresh my feet;

In which each morning, ere the sun doth rise,

I look myself, and clear my pleasant eyes,

Before I pipe; for therein have I skill