‘A boon, a boon,’ cries Little John,
‘Master, I beg of thee.’
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‘What is that boon,’ said Robin Hood,
‘Little John, [thou] begs of me?’
‘It is to burn fair Kirkly-hall,
And all their nunnery.’
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‘Now nay, now nay,’ quoth Robin Hood,
‘That boon I’ll not grant thee;