Though his sydës gan to smerte.
197.
‘Make glad chere,’ sayde Robyn Hode,
‘Sheref, for charitë;
For this is our ordre i-wys
Under the grene-wode tree.’
198.
198.2 ‘ankir,’ anchorite, hermit.
‘This is harder order,’ sayde the sherief,
‘Than any ankir or frere;