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

ROBIN HOOD AND THE ABBOT.

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Thus Robin Hood did vindicate

His former wrongs receiv’d :

For ’twas this covetous prelàte

That him of land bereav’d.

The abbot he rode to the king,

With all the haste he could ;

And to his grace he every thing

Exactly did unfold :