The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire / Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

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Robin Hood shot passing well,

'Till his arrows all were gane;

They tooke their swords and steele bucklers,

They fought with might and maine.

From ten o' th' clock that very day,

Till four i' th' afternoon;

Then Robin Hood came to his knees,

Of the fryer to beg a boone.

"A boone, a boone, thou curtall fryer,