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,