“Lo! see my staff, it is lusty and tough,
Now here on the bridge we will play;
Whoever falls in, the other shall win
The battel, and so we’ll away.”
“With all my whole heart,” the stranger reply’d;
“I scorn in the least to give out;”
This said, they fell to’t without more dispute,
And their staffs they did flourish about.
And first Robin he gave the stranger a bang,
So hard that it made his bones ring: