THE POTTER.
Why should I pay passage to thee?
ROBYN HODE.
For I am Robyn Hode, chiefe gouernoure
Under the grene woode tree.
THE POTTER.
This seven yere have I used this way up and downe,
Yet payed I passage to no man,
Nor now I wyl not beginne, [so do] the worst thou can.
ROBYN HODE.
Passage shalt thou pai here under the grene-wode tre,
Or els thou shalt leve a [wedde] with me.
THE POTTER.
If thou be a good felowe, as men do the call,190
Laye awaye thy bowe,
And take thy sword and buckeler in thy hande,
And see what shall befall.