That lay last by my side.
Then out it spake his father dear:
"My son, you are to blame;
An' gin you're catched on English ground,
I fear you'll ne'er win hame."
Then out it spake a valiant knight,
Johnny's best friend was he:
"I can command five hunder men,
An' I'll his surety be."
The firstin town that they came till,