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.

by Unknown

Nay for god, sayd he.

“Now, good syr abbot, be my frende,

For thy curteysè,

And holde my londes in thy honde

Tyll I have made the gree ;

And I wyll be thy true servaunte,

And trewely serve the,

Tyl ye have foure hondred pounde

Of money good and free.”

The abbot sware a full grete othe,