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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His boltes and arrowes eche one :

When the sheriffe saw Little John bend his bow,

He fettled him to be gone.

Towards his house in Nottingham towne,

He fled full fast away ;

And soe did all the companye :

Not one behind wold stay.

But he cold neither runne soe fast,

Nor away soe fast cold ryde,

But Little John with an arrowe soe broad,