A lytell within the wode,
Double-dyched it was about,
And walled, by the rode ;
And there dwelled that gentyll knyght,
Syr Rychard at the Lee,
That Robyn had lent his good,
Under the grene wode tree.
In he toke good Robyn,
And all his company :
“Welcome be thou, Robyn Hode,