Which put them to this desp’rate deed,
The fords they tried which were too strong,
Horse of more strength and legs more long
They would require at such a place,
And there to stay great danger was.
They chus’d a swamp above a ford,
And in they plung’d with one accord,
The horse went first and swim’d half thro’,
Foot at their tails they forward drew,
Who hung together with arms a-cleek,