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

FRYER.

Avaunt, ye ragged knave !

Or ye shall have on the skynne.

ROBYN HODE.

Of all the men in the morning thou art the worst,

To mete with the I have no lust ;

For he that meteth a frere or a fox in the morning,

To spede ill [334] that day he standeth in jeoperdy :

Therfore I had lever mete with the devil of hell,

Fryer, I tell the as I thinke,