‘I pray God thanke you,’ seid Litull John,

‘And we wil when we may;

We wil go with you, with your leve,

And bryng yow on your way.

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‘Ffor Robyn Hode hase many a wilde felow,

I tell you in certen;

If þei wist ȝe rode þis way,

In feith ȝe shulde be slayn.’

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