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

Downe, a downe, a downe. {236}

If that I live a yeare to an end,

Thus gan queene Katherine say,

Bold Robin Hood, I will be thy friend,

And all thy yeomen gay.

The queene is to her chamber gone,

As fast as she can wen ;

She calls unto her lovely page,

His name was Richard Patrington.

“Come thou hither to mee, thou lovely page,