With a stout frere I met,

And a quarter-staffe in his hande,

Lyghtely to me he lept,

And styll he bade me stande ;

There were strypes two or three,

But I cannot tell who had the worse,

But well I wote the horeson lept within me,

And fro me he toke my purse.

Is there any of my mery men all,

That to that frere wyll go,