Have their pasture, as you shall hear,
Of men and women in sentence
Through suffrance or through impatience.

Then shall be pourtrayed a fat beast called Bicorn, of the country
of Bicornis, and say these three verses following:-

"Of Bicornis I am Bicorn,
Full fat and round here as I stand,
And in marriage bound and sworn
To Chichevache as her husband,
Which will not eat on sea nor land
But patient wives debonair,
Which to their husbands be n't contraire

"Full scarce, God wot, is her vitail,
Humble wives she finds so few,
For always at the contre tail
Their tongue clappeth and doth hew.
Such meeke wives I beshrew,
That neither can at bed ne board
Their husbands not forbear one word.

"But my food and my cherishing,
To tell plainly and not to vary,
Is of such folks which, their living,
Dare to their wives be not contrary,
Ne from their lustes dare not vary,
Nor with them hold no champarty, {86a}
All such my stomach will defy." {86b}