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Thou had seven hundred wives at once,
for whom thou didst provide:
And yet god wot three hundred whores
thou didst mantain beside:
And they made thee forsake thy God,
and worship stocks and stones;
Besides the charge they put you to
In breeding of young bones.
Hadst thou not been beside thy wits,
Thou wouldst not thus have ventured;
And therefore I do marvel much,
how thou this place hast entered.
I never heard quoth Jonas then,
so vile a scold as this.
Thou whore-son tun away quoth she,
thou didest more amiss.
They say quoth Thomas, womens tongues
of aspen leavss are made.
Thou unbelieving wretch quoth she,
