And beare my benbow by my side.’

6

‘You’st beare your bowe, master, your selfe,

And shoote for a peny with mee:’

‘To that I doe assent,’ Robin Hood sayd,

‘And soe, Iohn, lett it bee.’

7

They two bolde children shotten together,

All day theire selfe in ranke,

Vntill they came to blacke water,