And stumbled at that tyde;
And Guy was quicke and nimble withall
And hitt him upon the syde.
"Ah, deere ladye," says Robin Hood tho,
"That art but mother and may,
I think it was never man's destinye
To dye before his day."
Robin thought on our ladye deere,
And soone leapt up again,
And strait he came with an awkwarde stroke