“Thou sayest eke, that there be thingës three, Which thingës greatly trouble all this earth, And that no wightë may endure the ferth: 1879 O lefe 1880 sir shrew, may Jesus short 1881 thy life. Yet preachest thou, and say’st, a hateful wife Y-reckon’d is for one of these mischances. Be there none other manner resemblánces 1882 That ye may liken your parables unto, But if a silly wife be one of tho? 1883 Thou likenest a woman’s love to hell; To barren land where water may not dwell. Thou likenest it also to wild fire; The more it burns, the more it hath desire To cónsume every thing that burnt will be. Thou sayest, right as wormës shend 1884 a tree,