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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