Over stocks and stone,
For the sheriff with seven score men
Fast after him is gone.
farley, strange. bale, mischief or sorrow. slade, valley.
"Yet one shot I'll shoot," says Little John,
"With Christ his might and main;
I'll make yond fellow that flies so fast,
To be both glad and fain."
John bent up a good yew bow,
And fettled him to shoot: