Without any cut or heme,’ quoth he.

‘Thou must shape it knife-and-sheerless

And also sue it needle-threadless.’”

She replies:—

“I have an aiker of good ley-land

Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand.

For thou must car it with thy horn,

So thou must sow it with thy corn,

And bigg a cart of stone and lyme.

Robin Redbreast he must trail it hame,