“But he’ll be surrounded with nobles so gay,

And how shall we tell him from them, sir, I pray?”

“Thou’lt easily ken him when once thou art there;

The King will be covered, his nobles all bare.”

He got up behind him and likewise his sack,

His budget of leather, and tools at his back;

They rode till they came to the merry Greenwood,

His nobles came round him, bareheaded they stood.

The Tinkler then seeing so many appear,