Robin Hood / A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

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Ye must gyve that knight an hors,

To lede home al this good.

Take hym a gray courser, sayd Robyn,

And a sadell newe ;

He is our ladyes messengere,

God lene[139] that he be true.

And a good palfraye, sayd lytell Moch,

To mayntayne hym in his ryght.

And a payre of botes, sayd Scathelocke,

For he is a gentyll knyght.