On Giles and Joan

XLII.
 ? ON GILES AND JOAN.
  
       Who says that GILES and JOAN at discord be ? 
Th' observing neighbors no such mood can see.
 
Indeed, poor Giles repents he married ever ; 
But that his Joan doth too.
  And Giles would never, 
By his free-will, be in Joan's company : 
No more would Joan he should.
  Giles riseth early, 
And having got him out of doors is glad ; 
The like is Joan : but turning home is sad ; 
And so is Joan.
  Oftimes when Giles doth find 
Harsh sights at home, Giles wisheth he were blind ; 
All this doth Joan : or that his long-yearn'd life 
Were quite out-spun ; the like wish hath his wife.
 
The children that he keeps, Giles swears are none 
Of his getting ;  and so swears his Joan.
 
In all affections she concurreth still.
 
If now, with man and wife, to will and nill 
The self-same things, a note of concord be : 
I know no couple better can agree !  

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