'Twas Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John;
With that they espy'd the jolly pinder,
As he sat under a thorn.
"Now turn again, turn again," said the pinder,
"For a wrong way you have gone;
For you have forsaken the king's highway,
And made a path over the corn."
"O that were a shame," said jolly Robin,
"We being three, and thou but one."
The pinder lept back then thirty good foot,