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

His frende than wyll I be.

Have here foure hondred pounde, than sayd the knyght,

The whiche ye lent to me ;

And here is also twenty marke

For your curteysy.

Nay, for god, than sayd Robyn,

Thou broke it well for ay,

For our lady, by her selerer,

Hath sent to me my pay ;

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