Dead and alive

This ditty out of Glocestershire was sent to London, for to have it put in print, therefore draw neer and listen into this. it doth concern a man that did amiss, and so to shun the anger of his wife, he thought with poyson for to end his life but in the stead of poyson he drunk sack, for which his wife did soundly pay his back to the tune of, Old flesh