To drink it was no sin.

But ale and wine they drank so fast,

That the tinker hee forgot

What thing he was about to do ;

It fell so to his lot,

That, while the tinker fell asleep,

‘Robin’ made haste[294] away,

And left the tinker in the lurch,

For the great shot to pay. {193}

But when the tinker wakenèd,