[114. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley]
Fytte the First
I
Mery it was in the grene foreste
Amonge the levès grene,
Wheras men hunt east and west
Wyth bowes and arrowes kene;
II
To raise the dere out of theyr denne;
Suche sightes hath ofte bene sene;
As by thre yemen of the north countrey,
By them it is I meane.
III
The one of them hight Adam Bell,
The other Clym of the Clough[660],
The thyrd was Wyllyam of Cloudesley,
An archer good ynough.
IV
They were outlaw’d for venyson,
These yemen everych-one;
They swore them brethren upon a day,
To Englyshe-wood[661] for to gone.