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

By god that dyed on a tree,

Get the londe where thou may,

For thou getest none of me.

By dere worthy god, then sayd the knyght,

That all this worlde wrought,

But I have my londe agayne

Full dere it shall be bought ; {22}

God, that was of a mayden borne

Lene us[142] well to spede !

For it is good to assay a frende