The beggar followed after, and did the job again.

11

He laid her on the ringle-tree, and gave her kisses three,

And he gave her twenty guineas, to pay the nurse’s fee.

12

‘Had you been an honest lass, as I took you to be,

You might have rode in your carriage and gone along with me.’

13

The beggar he took a horn and blew it wondrous shrill;

There was four-and-twenty belted knights came riding oer the hill.