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

For this is our order I wys,

Under the grene wood tre.

This is harder order, sayd the sheryfe,

Than ony anker or frere ;

For al the golde in mery Englonde

I wolde not longe dwell here.

All these twelve monethes, sayd Robyn,

Thou shake dwell with me ;

I shall the teche, proud sheryfe,

An outlawe for to be.