‘Nay, be my trouth,’ seid Robyn Hode,

‘So shall hit neuer be;

I make þe maister,’ seid Robyn Hode,

‘Off alle my men and me.’

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‘Nay, be my trouth,’ seid Litull John,

‘So shalle hit neuer be;

But lat me be a felow,’ seid Litull John,

‘No noder kepe I be.’

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