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

To shoote the prickes y-fere.

Leade on, good fellowe, quoth Robin Hood,

Leade on, I do bidd thee.

Nay, by my faith, good fellowe, hee sayd,

My leader thou shalt bee.

The first time Robin shot at the pricke,

He mist but an inch it fro :

The yeoman he was an archer good,

But he cold never shoote soe.

The second shoote had the wightye yemàn,