"But nevertheless I'll be ruled by thee;
For this very moment I'll trudge up and down,
And borrow one, if there be one in the town."
So she went to the baker's, and thus she did say:
"O, lend me a cuckold's cap, neighbour, I pray,
For I'm going to set my miraculous hen,
And when that I've done with't, I'll bring it again."
The baker's wife answered, and thus she replied:
"Had I got such a thing, you should not be denied;
But these nineteen or twenty years I have been wed,