"To the justice we must it bring;
Let us in, our message to do,
That we were again to our king."
"Here cometh no man in," said the porter,
"By Him that died on a tree,
Till a false thief be hanged,
Called William of Cloudeslè.
Then spake the good yeoman Clym of the Clough,
And swore by Mary free,
"And if that we stand long without,