"As I was sailing upon the sea,

And [a] Bordeaux voyage as I did fare,

He clasped me to his hatch-board,

And robbed me of all my merchant ware.

And I am a man, both poor and bare,

And every man will have his own of me,

And I am bound towards London to fare,

To complain to my prince Henry."

"That shall not need," says my Lord Howard;

"If thou canst let me this robber see,