Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws / Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series

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‘Come sit we downe under this Hawthorne tree,
The morrowes light shall lend us daie enough,
And tell a tale of Gawen or Sir Guy,
Of Robin Hood, or of good Clem of the Clough.’
—C’est une vieille chanson.
—Qui l’a faite?
—On ne sait pas.
—Quand?
—On ne sait pas.