"I love no man in all this worlde
So much as I do the;130
For all the proud sheryf of Notyngham,
Ryght here shalt thou be.
"Shyt the gates, and drawe the bridge,
And let no man com in;
And arme you well, and make you redy,135
And to the walle ye wynne.
"For one thyng, Robyn, I the behote,
I swere by saynt Quyntyn,
These twelve dayes thou wonest with me,
To suppe, ete, and dyne."140
Bordes were layed, and clothes spred,
Reddely and anone;
Robyn Hode and his mery men
To mete gan they gone.
[11]. And that shoteth al ther best, W. And they that shote al of the best, C.
[13], al theyre, W. al of the, C.
[46], they slist, W. he clefte, C.
[80], belyve, C.
[100]. That I after eate no bread, C.