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

“He wolde avowe that he had done,

To mayntayne the outlawes stronge,

He wolde be lorde, and set you at nought,

In all the north londe.”

I woll be at Notyngham, sayd the kynge,

Within this fourtynyght,

And take I wyll Robyn Hode,

And so I wyll that knyght.

Go home, thou proud sheryf,

And do as I bydde the,[183]