Cloudeslee is taken, and dampned to death,

All readye for to honge.’

47.

‘Alas!’ then sayd good Adam Bell,

‘That ever we see thys daye!

He might here with us have dwelled,

So ofte as we dyd him praye.

48.

48.4 ‘teene,’ sorrow.

‘He myght have taryed in grene foreste,