‘My dwelling is in this wood,’ sayes Robin,
‘By thee I set right nought:
I am Robin Hood of Barnèsdale,
Whom thou so long hast sought.’
XXXVII
He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight,
To see how together these yemen went
With blades both browne and bright:
XXXVIII
To see how these yemen together they fought
Two howres of a summer’s day:
Yett neither Sir Guy nor Robin Hood
Them fettled to flye away.
XXXIX
Robin was reachles on[949] a roote,
And stumbled at that tyde;
And Guy was quick and nimble with-all,
And hitt him o’er the left side.
XL
‘Ah deere Lady!’ sayd Robin Hood,
‘That art both mother and may[950],
I think it was never man’s destinye
To dye before his day.’