To-morrow it may be still.’

5

‘Buske yee, bowne yee, my merry men all,

Ffor Iohn shall goe with mee;

For I’le goe seeke yond wight yeomen

In greenwood where the bee.’

6

Thé cast on their gowne of greene,

A shooting gone are they,

Vntill they came to the merry greenwood,