Then Robin enrag’d, more fiercely engag’d,

And follow’d his blows more severe.

So thick and so fast did he lay it on him,

With a passionate fury and ire ;

At every stroke he made him to smoke,

As if he had been all on fire.

O then into fury the stranger he grew,

And gave him a damnable look,

And with it a blow that laid him full low,

And tumbl’d him into the brook. {294}