Strake the yeoman through the brain.

That he fell down to the hatches again,

Sore of his wound that he did bleed:

Covetousness gets no gain,

It is very true, as the Welshman said.

But when he saw his sister's son slain,

Lord! in his heart he was not well:

"Go fetch me down my armour of proof,

For I will to the topcastle mysel'.

"Go fetch me down my armour of proof,