Because she'd a mind to have more of the breed.
Now as she was setting her hen on a day,
A shepherd came by, and thus he did say:
"Oh, what are you doing?" She answered him then,
"I'm going to set my miraculous hen."
"O, Joan," said the shepherd, "to keep your eggs warm,
And that they may prosper and come to no harm,
You must set them all in a large cuckold's cap,
And then all your chickens will come to good hap."
"O, I have no cuckold's cap, shepherd," said she,