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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Under this grene wode tre.

Robyn dwelled in grene wode,

Twenty yere and two,

For all drede of Edwarde our kynge

Agayne wolde he not goo. {80}

Yet he was begyled, I wys,

Through a wycked womàn,

The pryoresse of Kyrkesly,

That nye was of his kynne,

For the love of a knyght,