On Nab and Plodwel

Nab gone to Sea two years or more, and dead
Reported since, his wife did Plodwel wed:
Return'd Nab found his wife with child, and though
Her he must keep, the child he would not too.
Plodwel ejected of's new home and wife,
Laid the case thus: Tenant for years or life
When that his time expires, what e'r he leaves
Unto the Freehold fastned, the Law gives
All to the Landlord; and who ploughs, and sowes
Anothers ground, at his own peril do's
The same, and looses all the crop: since I
Have trespass'd, reap the same! he made reply,
The barn and ground's your own; good land should not
Lie fallow. Nab thus gain'd what Plodwel got.