‘Thou shalt swere me an othe,’ sayde Robyn,

‘On my bright bronde;

Shalt thou neuer awayte me scathe,

By water ne by lande.

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‘And if thou fynde any of my men,

By nyght or [by] day,

Vpon thyn othë thou shalt swere

To helpe them tha[t] thou may.’

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