He robbed me of my merchant’s-ware,
And I was his prisoner but yesternight.
23.
23.3 ‘arch-board,’ stern (?) Cp. 29.2 and ‘hatch-board,’ 70.2.
‘As I was sailing upon the sea,
And Bordeaux voyage as I did fare,
He clasped me to his arch-board,
And robbed me of all my merchant’s-ware.
24.
‘And I am a man both poor and bare,