If ye had not plowed] That is, if my wife had not unfaithfully discovered my secret, perswaded hereunto by your subtilty, you had never by your own wit found out the meaning. An allegory taken from husbandmen, who in plowing, by the labour of their beasts, finde things hidden under the earth, when the plow turns it up; wherein he taxeth both his wives persidi ousnesse, and their fraud, and want of wit.