And hur did apples cast;
The stones did so benumb her pones
That down hur come at last."
He fled, and lying down under a hedge, saw a couple of lovers, one of whom dropped a gold ring, which he picked up and appropriated. But
"Going thro' a town, God wot,
Against some ill bred curs,
Hur shewed it to a chattering trot
Who said the ring was hers."
An altercation ensued, and it ended in their going before a justice, where the Welshman, calling the justice a "great Boobie," was sent to the stocks. Whilst there, the lovers passed him, and he told them that the woman had the ring. She was apprehended and put with him in the stocks.
