And I fain would have her home with me."

"Full many a word that at noon goes forth

Comes home at even little worth.

Now winter treadeth on autumn-tide,

So here till the spring shalt thou abide.

Then if thy mind be changed no whit.

And ye still will wed, see ye to it!

And on the first of summer days,

A wedded man, ye may go your ways.

Yet look, howso the thing will fall,