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

And he that wolde smyte of the knyghtes hede

And brynge it to me,

He shall have the knyghtes londes,

Syr Rycharde at the Le ;

I gyve it hym with my chartèr,

And sele it with my honde,

To have and holde for ever-more,

In all mery Englonde.”

Than bespake a fayre olde knyght,

That was treue in his fay,