Dare make a trespàss to the town of Wakefield,
But his pledge goes to the pinfold, &c.
All this beheard three witty young men,
’Twas Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John ;
With that they espy’d the jolly pindèr,
As he sat under a thorn.
Now turn again, turn again, said the pindèr,
For a wrong way you have gone ;
For you have forsaken the kings highway,
And made a path over the corn.