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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He blyssed Robyn Hode ;

And whan he thought on Bernysdale,

On Scathelock, Much, and Johan,

He blyssed them for the best company

That ever he in come. {17}

Then spake that gentyll knyght,

To Lytel Johan gan he saye,

To morowe I must to Yorke toune,

To Saynt Mary abbay ;

And to the abbot of that place