From Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial by E. K. Chambers & Frank Sidgwick (London: A. H. Bullen, 1907), page 197:


CXIII

I am as lighte as any roe
To preise womene where that I go.

To onpreise womene it were a shame,
For a woman was thy dame.
Our blessed lady bereth the name
Of all womene where that they go.

A woman is a worthy thing;
They do the washe and do the wringe;
'Lullay, lullay!' she dothe thee singe;
And yet she hath but care and wo.

A woman is a worthy wight;
She serveth a man both daye and night;
Thereto she putteth alle her might;
And yet she hath but care and wo.