And there they alighted so manfullie.

12

‘Bold Dickie, Bold Dickie,’ poor Archer says he,

‘Take my love home to my wife and children three;

For my horse grows lame, he cannot swim,

And here I see that I must die.’

13

They shifted their horses, and so swam they,

Who but they so merrilie!

They swam till they came to the other side,