The worst that can hap, lo, in end is but beating.

Mansipulus [sings].

What, if my lording do chance for to miss me,

The worst that can happen is, cudgel will kiss me:

In such kind of sweetness, I swear by God’s mother,

It will please me better, it were on some other.

[All.] With thwick thwack, with thump thump,

With bobbing and bum,

Our side-saddle shoulders shall shield that doth come.

Hope so, and hap so, in hazard, &c.