1.2 ‘frebore,’ free-born.
Lythe and listin, gentilmen,
That be of frebore blode;
I shall you tel of a gode yeman,
His name was Robyn Hode.
2.
2.2,3 ‘Whyles . . . outlaw’: supplied from the Wynkyn de Worde text.
Robyn was a prude outlaw,
Whyles he walked on grounde;
So curteyse an outlaw as he was one