Riding then up Blankly-lane as fast as they could hie,
"Be merry, my hearts!" said Johnson, "I hear a woman cry."
"O help, help, help! O help, or else I dye,
O help me some good Christians, for my torments they draw nigh."
"O hark, O hark, " said Johnson, "I hear a woman cry,
Sure I cam of a woman, and shall I see her dye?"
"No, ride on, neighbour Johnson," now Kitson he did say,
"For that is some lewd woman will cast us all away.
If you had but rid on this way as oft as we have done,
You would have heard this cry before, and now let us be gone."

Then Johnson whipt into the wood with all his might and main,
Whereas he found the woman with cords fast ty'd in twain,
With cords fast ty'd in twain, and hand and foot was bound,
And found her there stark-naked, with her hair pin'd to the ground.
"Alas!" [to her] said Johnson, "what man hath us'd thee so?
He came not of a woman that would work a woman's woe:
Hast thou [here] no lewd company?" now Johnson he did say,
"For here we are come to save thy life, thou mayst cast us all away."
"No, I have no lewd company," the woman she did say,
"Three ruffians came riding by, and rob'd me by the way;