At last they ended their merryment,
And went to walk in the wood,
Where Little John and maid Marian
Attended on bold Robin Hood.80
In sollid content together they liv'd,
With all their yeomen gay;
They liv'd by their hands, without any lands,
And so they did many a day.
But now to conclude, an end I will make,85
In time as I think it good;
For the people that dwell in the north can tell
Of Marian and bold Robin Hood.
[58], wandring.
[73], venie.
THE KINGS DISGUISE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ROBIN HOOD.
This wretched production is evidently founded on the Lytell Geste. It was printed by Ritson from "the common collection of Aldermary Churchyard." One or two improvements were made by Gutch from a York edition. Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 166; Gutch's Robin Hood, ii. 281.
King Richard hearing of the pranks
Of Robin Hood and his men,
He much admir'd, and more desir'd,
To see both him and them.