Hey down, derry, derry down. {331}
Therefore they called a council of state,
To know what was best to be done,
For to quell their pride, or else they reply’d
The land would be over-run.
Having consulted a whole summer’s day,
At length it was agreed,
That one should be sent to try the event,
And fetch him away with speed.
Therefore a trusty and most worthy knight