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

Or that a man have nede.

The abbot lothely on hym gan loke

And vylaynesly hym gan ‘call ;’ [143]

Out, he sayd, thou false knyght,

Spede the out of my hall !

Thou lyest, then sayd the gentyll knyght,

Abbot in thy hal ;

False knyght was I never,

By god that made us all.

Up then stode that gentyll knyght,