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.

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And there he lent Lytel Johan,

Good strokes thre.

I make myn avowe, sayd Lytell Johan,

These strokes lyketh well me.

Thou arte a bolde man and an hardy,

And so thynketh me ;

And or I passe fro this place,

Asayed better shalt thou be.

Lytell Johan drewe a good swerde,

The coke toke another in honde ;