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‘And come home, sir, unto my court,
And there dwell with me.’—
‘I make mine avow to God,’ said Robin,
‘And right so shall it be.
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‘I will come unto your court,
Your service for to see,
And bringè with me of my men
Seven score and three.
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‘But me like[911] well your service,
I will come again full soon,
And shooten at the dunnè deer,
As I am wont to doon.’
The Eighth Fytte
How Robin Hood lived a while at the King’s Court, but returned to the Green-wood
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‘Hast thou any green cloth?’ said our King,
‘That thou wilt sell now to me?’—
‘Yea, ’fore God,’ said Robin,
‘Thirty yards and three.’