As I hope to be sav’d, the stranger then said,

I am his own sisters son. {221}

But, lord ! what kissing and courting was there,

When these two cousins did greet !

And they went all that summers day,

And Little John did [not] meet.

But when they met with Little John,

He ‘unto them’ did say,

O master, pray where have you been,

You have tarried so long away ?