With many an archer gay. {260}

With that an arrow by them flew,

I wist from Robin Hood ;

Make haste, make haste, the sheriff he said,

Make haste, for it is good.

The sheriff is gon, his ‘doughty’ [314] men

Thought it no boot to stay,

But, as their master had them taught,

‘They’ run full fast away.

O stay, O stay, Will Stutly said,