I make myn avow to god, sayd Robyn,

And to the trenytè,

It was never by his good wyll,

This good is come to me.

Lytell Johan hym there bethought,

On a shrewed wyle,[156]

Fyve myle in the forest he ran,

Hym happed at his wyll ;

Than he met the proud sheryf,

Huntynge with hounde and horne,