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

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“O wilt thou forsake the pinder his craft,

And go to the green-wood with me ?

Thou shalt have a livery twice in the year,

The one green, the other brown.”

“If Michaelmas day was come and gone,

And my master had paid me my fee,

Then would I set as little by him,

As my master doth by me.”