Where they had gladdest bee;

There were the ware of [a] wight yeoman,

His body leaned to a tree.

7

A sword and a dagger he wore by his side,

Had beene many a mans bane,

And he was cladd in his capull-hyde,

Topp, and tayle, and mayne.

8

‘Stand you still, master,’ quoth Litle Iohn,