4379 for to do a thing (Needly call I simple necessity), Or ellës if free choice be granted me To do that samë thing, or do it not, Though God forewot 4380 it ere that it was wrought; Or if his weeting 4381 straineth 4382 never a deal, 4383 But by necessity conditionel. I will not have to do of such mattére; My tale is of a cock, as ye may hear, That took his counsel of his wife, with sorrow, To walken in the yard upon the morrow That he had mette the dream, as I you told. Womanë’s counsels be full often cold; 4384 Womanë’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made Adám from Paradise to go,