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

Topp and tayll and mayne. {117}

Stand you still, master, quoth Little John,

Under this tree so grene,

And I will go to yond wight yeomàn,

To know what he doth meane.

“Ah ! John, by me thou settest noe store,

And that I farley finde :

How offt send I my men before,

And tarry my selfe behinde ?

It is no cunning a knave to ken,