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

Thus still he liv’d by robbery

Throughout the northern parts ;

And all the country stood in dread

Of Robin Hood and’s men :

For stouter lads ne’r liv’d by bread

In those days, nor since then.

The abbot, which before i nam’d,

Sought all the means he could

To have by force this rebel ta’n,

And his adherents bold.