8.4 ‘badgers,’ corn-dealers or pedlars.
‘Nay, I’ll have but five,’ says Hobby Noble,
‘That shall walk away with me;
We will ride like no men of war,
But like poor badgers we will be.’
9.
9.2 ‘barefoot,’ unshod.
They stuffed up all their bags with straw,
And their steeds barefoot must be;
‘Come on, my brethren,’ says Hobby Noble,