Ibid. page 516:


(ii.) The Knights out of Spain. Three players (or sometimes only one) are chosen to represent the Knights; the rest, who must be an uneven number, stand in a row facing them, and the parties advance and retire alternately as before.

1st Party. 'Here comes Three Knights all out of Spain,
A-courting of your daughter Jane.
2nd Party. My daughter Jane she is too young,
She can't abide your flattering tongue.
1st. If she be young or she be old,
She for her beauty must lie sold.
2nd. Go back, go back, you Spanish Knight,
And rub your spurs till they are bright.
1st. My spurs are bright and richly wrought,
And in this town they were not bought,
And in this town they sha'n't be sold,
Neither for silver nor for gold.
2nd. Walk up the kitchen and down the hall,
And choose the fairest of us all.
1st. Madams, to you I bow and bend,
I take you for my dearest friend;
You are two beauties, I declare,
So come along with me, my dear.'

(The girl at each end of the long row goes over to the Knights, and the game is repeated with five, seven, etc., Knights. The last who is left takes the Knight's part in the next game. Thus at Edgmond: but in some places the Knights call one girl only by name each time.)

—Common.