354.4 ‘and yf’ = if.
The kynge came to Notynghame,
With knyghtës in grete araye,
For to take that gentyll knyght
And Robyn Hode, and yf he may.
355.
He askëd men of that countrë
After Robyn Hode,
And after that gentyll knyght,
That was so bolde and stout.