‘Cowdest thou shote as well in a bowe,

To grenë wode thou shuldest with me,

And two times in the yere thy clothinge

Chaunged shuldë be;

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‘And euery yere of Robyn Hode

Twenty merke to thy fe:’

‘Put vp thy swerde,’ saide the coke,

‘And felowës woll we be.’

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