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

Here are no more but we thre :

But we brynge them to dyner,

Our mayster dare we not se. {40}

Bende your bowes, sayd Lytell Johan,

Make all yon[161] prese to stonde,

The formost monke, his lyfe and his deth

Is closed in my honde.

Abyde, chorle monke, sayd Lytell Johan,

No ferther that thou gone ;

Yf thou doost, by dere worthy god,