And two of them ye may leave to me.’

8

‘We will not stay, nor we dare not stay,

O Parcy Reed, for to fight with thee;

For thou wilt find, O Parcy Reed,

That they will slay both us and thee.’

9

‘O stay, O stay, O Tommy Hall,

O stay, O man, and fight with me!

If we see the Troughend again,