When he came to grene wode,

In a mery mornynge,

There he herde the notës small

Of byrdës mery syngynge.

446.

446.3 ‘Me lyste,’ I should like.

446.4 ‘donne,’ dun (cf. 417.3).

‘It is ferre gone,’ sayd Robyn,

‘That I was last here;

Me lyste a lytell for to shote