[287]. The MS. repeats this line after the following: Het ambellet be mey sey.
MS. [310], bowhes.
[316], be ther.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER.
Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 27. Printed from an old black-letter copy in the collection of Anthony à Wood. The story is the same as in the second part of Robin Hood and the Potter.
Come, all you brave gallants, and listen awhile,
With hey down, down, an a down,
That are in the bowers within;
For of Robin Hood, that archer good,
A song I intend for to sing.
Upon a time it chancèd so,5
Bold Robin in forrest did 'spy
A jolly butcher, with a bonny fine mare,
With his flesh to the market did hye.
"Good morrow, good fellow," said jolly Robin,
"What food hast [thou]? tell unto me;10
Thy trade to me tell, and where thou dost dwell,
For I like well thy company."