‘Hast thou any friends,’ said Robin Hood,
‘Thy borrows[754] that will be?’
‘I havè none,’ then said the Knight,
‘But Him that died on tree!’
LXIII
‘Do way thy japès[755],’ said Robin,
‘Thereof will I right none;
Ween’st thou I would have God to[756] borrow,
Peter, Paul or John?
LXIV
‘Nay, by Him that madè me,
And shope[757] both sun and moon,
Find better borrow,’ said Robin,
‘Or money get’st thou none.’
LXV
‘I have none other,’ said the Knight,
‘The soothè for to say,
But if[758] it be Our dear Lady;
She fail’d never ere this day.’
LXVI
‘By dear-worth God,’ said Robin Hood,
‘To seek all England thorough,
Yet found I never to my pay
A muchè better borrow.