The stranger then answered bold Robin Hood,
Ile tell thee where I do dwell ;
In Maxwell town I was bred and born,
My name is young Gamwell.
For killing of my own fathers stewàrd,
I am forc’d to this English wood,
And for to seek an uncle of mine,
Some call him Robin Hood.
“But ‘art thou’ a cousin of Robin Hood then ?
The sooner we should have done.”