All cloathed in green, most gay to be seen;

So up to their master they steerd.

24

‘O what’s the matter?’ quoth William Stutely;

‘Good master, you are wet to the skin:’

‘No matter,’ quoth he; ‘the lad which you see,

In fighting, hath tumbld me in.’

25

‘He shall not go scot-free,’ the others reply’d;

So strait they were seizing him there,