Now when I saw the woman gone, I call'd my wife aside, And said why art thou such a one, that thou canst not abide A woman for to talke with mee, this is a wofull case, That I must keepe no company except you be in place. _Give me my yellow hose &c._ This maketh Batchelers to wooe so long before they wed, Because they heare that women now will be their husband's head. And seven yeare long I tarried for Jakaman my wife, But now that I am married I am weary of my life. _Give me my yellow hose &c._ For yellow love is too, too bad, without all wit or policie, And too much love hath made her mad, and fill'd her full of Jelousie. She thinkes I am in love with those I speake to passing by That makes her wear the yellow hose I gave her for to dye. _Give me my yellow Hose &c._ But now I see shee is so hot and lives so much at ease, I will goe get a Souldiers coate, and sayle beyond the Seas; To serve my Captain where and whan, though it be to my paine, Thus farewell gentle Jakaman, till we two meet againe. _Give me my yellow Hose &c._ Quoth she, good husband, doe not deale thus hardly now with me, And of a truth, I will reveale my cause of jealousie: You know I alwaies paid the score, you put me still in trust, I saved twenty pound and more, confesse it needes I must. _Give me my yellow Hose &c._ But now my saving of the same, for aught that I doe know; Made Jelousie to fire her frame, to weave this web of woe: And thus this foolish love of mine was very fondly bent, But now my gold and goods are thine, good husband, be content. _Give me my yellow Hose &c._ And thus to lead my life a new, I fully now purpose; That thou maist change thy coat of blew, and I my yellow hose. This being done, our Country wives may warning take by me, How they doe live such jealous lives, as I have done with thee. _Give me my yellow Hose &c._ M. L. FINIS. Imprinted at London for Edward Wright.[F. 85]-- [Footnote 84: For tune, see Appendix.] [Footnote 85: Edward Wright lived at Christ Church Gate, and published between 1620 and 1655, at which date he assigns to W. Gilbertson.] [17.] Two riding down a great hill together, one said, it was dangerous riding down: No, says t'other, I will not light; for I have but one pair of shooes, and I shall spoil 'em: says the other, and I have but one neck, and I fear I shall spoil that, and therefore I'l. light. One hung a dirty sheet [12.] On a pale in the street, And there it did hang all the day But 'twas stole at Night, Says the Man, by this light They have stole it clean away.