96. Women, women, love of women
Maketh bare pursis with sum men
1
Sum be mery, & sum be sade,
& sum be besy, & sum be bade;
Sum be wilde, by seynt Chade,
Yet all be not so;
For sum be lewed, & sum be shrewed;
Go, shrew, wher-so-euer ye go.
2
Sum be wyse, & sum be fonde;
Sum be tame, I vnderstond;
Sum will take bred at a mannus hond,
Yet all be not so;
For sum be lewde, & sum be shrewed;
Go, shrew, wher-so-euer ye go.
3
Sum be wroth, & can not tell wherfore;
Sum be skornyng evermore;
& sum be tusked lyke a bore;
Yet all be not so:
For sum be lewed, & sum be shrewed:
Go, shrewe, wher-so-euer ye go.
4
Sum will be dronkyn as a mowse;
Sum be croked, & will hurte a lowse;
Sum be fayre, & good in a hows;
Yet all be not so:
For sum be lewed, & sum be shrewed;
Go, shrewe, wher-so-euer ye go.
5
Sum be snowted like an ape;
Sum can nother play ne jape;
Sum of them be well shape;
Yet all be not so:
For sum be lewed, & sum be shrewed;
Go, shrewe, wher-so-euer ye go.
6
Sum can prate withowt hire;
Sum make bate in euery shire;
Sum can play chek-mate with owr sire,
Yet all they do not so:
For sum be lewed, & sum be shrewed;
Go, shrew, wher-so-euer ye go.
Explicit.
