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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Dwelled styll full many a day.

Lyth and lysten, gentil men,

And herken what I shall say,

How the proud sheryfe of Notyngham

Dyde crye a full fayre play ; {51}

That all the best archers of the north

Sholde come upon a day,

And ‘he’ that shoteth ‘alder’ best[177]

The game shall bere away.

“He that shoteth ‘alder’ [178] best