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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That ye brought fro the see.

[They put on their symple wedes,]

And came to the gates anone,

The porter was redy hymselfe,

And welcomed them everychone.

Welcome, syr knyght, sayd the portèr,

My lorde to mete is he,

And so is many a gentyll man,

For the love of the. {20}

The porter swore a full grete othe,