For I saw them fighting, and fiddled the while ;

And Clorinda sung “Hey derry down !

The bumkins are beaten, put up thy sword, Bob,

And now let’s dance into the town.”

Before we came in we heard a great shouting,

And all that were in it look’d madly ;

For some were on bull-back, some dancing a morris,

And some singing Arthur-a-Bradley.[288] {159}

And there we see Thomas, our justices clerk,

And Mary, to whom he was kind ;