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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Tyll he came to Plomton parke,

He faylyd many of his dere {64}

There our kynge was wont to se

Herdes many one,

He coud unneth fynde one dere,

That bare ony good horne.

The kynge was wonder wroth withall,

And swore by the trynytè,

“I wolde I had Robyn Hode,

With eyen I myght hym se ;