Mery it was in grene forest

Among the levës grene,

Wher that men walke both east and west

Wyth bowes and arrowes kene;

2.

To ryse the dere out of theyr denne;

Suche sightes as hath ofte bene sene,

As by thre yemen of the north countrey,

By them it is as I meane.

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