23

‘Þis traytur name is Robyn Hode,

Vnder þe grene-wode lynde;

He robbyt me onys of a hundred pound,

Hit shalle neuer out of my mynde.’

24

Vp þen rose þis prowde shereff,

And radly made hym ȝare;

Many was þe moder son

To þe kyrk with hym can fare.