‘If Michaelmas day were once come and gone
And my master had paid me my fee,
Then would I set as little by him
As my master doth set by me.’
B
Percy MS., p. 15; Hales and Furnivall, I, 32.
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‘But hold y . . hold y . . .’ says Robin,
‘My merrymen, I bid yee,