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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But lay still as a stane ;

His cheeks were pale as any clay,

And closed [259] were his een.

The beggar thought him dead but fail,

And boldly bound his way.—

I would ye had been at the dale,

And gotten part of the play. {103}

THE SECOND PART.

Now three of Robin’s men, by chance,

Came walking by the way,