"You're welcome home," queen Katherin cryed,85
"Henry, my soveraign liege;
Bold Robin Hood, that archer good,
Your person hath been to seek."
But when king Henry he did hear,
That Robin had been there him to seeke,90
This answer he gave, "He's a cunning knave,
For I have sought him this whole three weeks."
"A boon! a boon!" queen Katherin cry'd,
"I beg it here of your grace;—
To pardon his life, and seek not strife,"95
And so endeth Robin Hoods chase.
[5], then did.
[52], he ... was.
[73], Robin Hood.
LITTLE JOHN AND THE FOUR BEGGERS.
"From an old black-letter copy in the collection of Anthony à Wood: the full title being, A new merry song of Robin Hood and Little John, shewing how Little John went a begging, and how he fought with the four beggers. The tune is, Robin Hood and the Begger." Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 132.