And then in heart he did rejoice,

And clap’d his lusty tree.

He thought if he had done them wrong,

In mealing of their cloaths,[267]

For to strike off the meal again

With his pyke-staff he goes.

E’er any of them could red their een,

Or a glimmring might see,

Ilke one of them a dozen had,

Well laid on with his tree.