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

That must I now know here.

“Three hundred tun of Rhenish wine,

Three hundred tun of beere ;

Three hundred of the fattest harts

That run on Dallom-lee.” [305]

That’s a princely wager, said the king,

That needs must I tell thee. {240}

With that bespake one Clifton then,

Full quickly and full soone,

Measure no markes for us, most soveraigne liege,