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

Therfore I pray the, stuarde,

My dyner gyve thou me.

Shaly thou never ete ne drynke, sayd the stuarde,

Tyll my lord be come to towne.

I make myn avowe to god, sayd Lytell Johan,

I had lever to cracke thy crowne. {30}

The butler was ful uncurteys,

There he stode on flore,

He sterte to the buttery,

And shet fast the dore.