Then round him came this company, and bid him to dismount;
“Come tell us where you’re going, give us a strict account;
For we are now resolved that you shall ne’er pass by.”
Upon examination they found he was a spy.
He begged for his liberty, he plead for his discharge,
And oftentimes he told them, if they’d set him at large,
“Here’s all the gold and silver I have laid up in store,
But when I reach the city, I’ll give you ten times more.”
“I want not the gold and silver you have laid up in store,
And when you get to New York you need not send us more.