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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The wager’s none of thine, then said the forrestèrs,

Although thou beest in haste ;

Take up thy bow, and get thee hence,

Lest wee thy sides do baste.

Robin Hood hee took up his noble bow,

And his broad arrows all amain ;

And Robin he[1] laught, and begun [for] to smile,

As hee went over the plain.

Then Robin he[1] bent his noble bow,

And his broad arrows he let flye,