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

Then streight [they] boarded the French ship,

They lyeing all dead in their sight ;

They found within ‘that’ ship of warre,

Twelve thousand pound of mony bright. {267}

The one halfe of the ship, said Simon then,

Ile give to my dame and [her] children small ;

The other halfe of the ship Ile bestow

On you that are my fellowes all.

But now bespake the master then,

For so, Simon, it shall not be,