And that they evermore afoot would fare

  Up hill or down, by mountain or by plain,

  Nor, when the year was ended, would they wear

  The knightly mail or climb the steed again;

  Save that from other they by force should bear,

  In battle, other steeds and other chain.

  So, without arms, to punish their misdeeds,

  These wend a-foot, those others on their steeds.