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

Welcome arte thou [to] me ;

And moche [I] thanke the of thy comfort,

And of thy curteysye,

And of thy grete kyndenesse,

Under the grene wode tre ; {56}

I love no man in all this worlde

So moch as I do the ;

For all the proud sheryf of Notyngham,

Ryght here shalt thou be.

Shyt the gates, and drawe the bridge,