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To study now he doth begin,to bring this thing about:At length he was resolv'd to stayall night until the morrow,For fear they two should have a fray,which might encrease his sorrow,Well now the lusty ploughmen came,to feed and to carouse;As for the master and the dame,they supp'd at the next house,When the ploughmen well had fed,to bed they took their way,For I have heard it often said,they rise by break of day,But time brings all things to an end,now home the woman came,With hur husband, hur best friend,who was a cock o' the game;They wish'd the maid to go to bed,she need not be entreated,Whilst Taffy on the bacon fed,and bravely he was seated.For he upon the saddle sat,unknown unseen of all,All bedaub'd with bacon fat,nor dreamed he should fall;They warm'd their legs and eke their feet,the man now wanton grows:For why he thought it not unmeet,to play with his wife's toes;
