120
And I shall thinke my labour well
Bestowed, to purpose good,
When’t shall be sayd that I did tell
True tales of Robbin Hood.
At the end of the Tale:
The Epitaph which the Prioresse of the Monastery of Kirkes Lay in Yorke-shire set over Robbin Hood, which, as is before mentioned, was to bee reade within these hundreth yeares, though in old broken English, much to the same sence and meaning.
Decembris quarto die, 1198: anno regni Richardii Primi 9.
Robert Earle of Huntington