For sooth he is in this town.

22.

22.4 ‘And’ = if: ‘it will be your fault if he escapes us.’

‘I have spied the false felon,

As he standës at his mass;

It is long of thee,’ said the monk,

‘And ever he fro us pass.

23.

23.1 ‘traitor’ is genitive: cf. ‘milner son,’ 8.1, and ‘mother son,’ 24.3.

‘This traitor name is Robin Hood,