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

Upon the grounde he lay full styll ;

And or he myght up aryse,

On his fete to stonde,

He smote of the sheryves hede,

With his bryght bronde.

“Lye thou there, thou proud sheryf,

Evyll mote thou thryve ;

There myght no man to the trust,

The whyles thou were alyve.”

His men drewe out theyr bryght swerdes,