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

Tyll a table rounde,

And there he shoke out of a bagge

Even foure hondred pounde.

Have here thy golde, syr abbot, sayd the knyght,

Which that thou lentest me ;

Haddest thou ben curteys at my comynge,

Rewarde sholdest thou have be.

The abbot sat styll, and ete no more,

For all his ryall chere,

He caste his hede on his sholdèr,