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

I may not be therfro,

Barefote and wolwarde I have hyght

Thyder for to go.”

Yf it be so, than sayd our kynge,

It may no better be ;

Seven nyght I gyve the leve,

No lengre, to dwell fro me.

Gramercy, lorde, then sayd Robyn,

And set hym on his kne ;

He toke his leve full courteysly,