Then quoth Robin, "How cometh it that I saw young David of Doncaster with thee and thy men, Sir Knight?

General Wade was to march yesterday from Doncaster for Scotland.

"And returns from York to Doncaster in a Forenoon, to Newark in a day and a half, to Stamford in Two days, and from Stamford to London in Two days more.

There by Sir Doncaster of Hothersfield We were bewray'd, beset, and forc'd to yield, And so borne bound from thence to Nottingham, Where we lay doom'd to death till Warman came.