He sliced the feather from off my beaver,

And ran his sword twice into my groin."

Then out whipp'd blades: the horns they

sounded,

The field came flocking in thick and fast,

But Sir Walter flogged at the barking rabble,

And through them all like a whirlwind passed.

"A hundred guineas to seize the traitor!"

Cried the Justice, purple and white with rage,

Then such a spurring, whipping, and flogging,