and blew a blast lowd and small;
Seuen score lords, knights, squires and yeomen
came riding ouer a dale.
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‘Now out alas!’ quoth the tanner,
‘that euer I saw this tide;
Thou art a strong thiefe, yonder be thy fellowes,
will haue my mare and my cowhide.’
50
‘They are no theeues,’ then said our king,