And fettled him to shoote:

The bowe was made of tender boughe,

And fell downe at his foote.

"Woe worth, woe worth thee, wicked wood,

That ever thou grew on a tree!

For now this day thou art my bale,[26]

My boote when thou shold bee."

His shoote it was but loosely shott,

Yet flewe not the arrowe in vaine,

For itt mett one of the sheriffe's men,