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 toke out the brode tarpe,[201]

And sone he lete hym se ;

Robyn coud his courteysy,

And set hym on his kne : {69}

“I love no man in all the worlde

So well as I do my kynge,

Welcome is my lordes seale ;

And, monke, for thy tydynge,

Syr abbot, for thy tydynges,

To day thou shalt dyne with me,