The Book of Old English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards
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Cladd in his capull hyde.
"Come hyther, come hyther, thou good Sir Guy, Aske what thou wilt of mee." "O I will none of thy gold," sayd Robin, "Nor I will none of thy fee. "But now I have slaine the master," he sayes, "Let me goe strike the knave; For this is all the rewarde I aske. Nor noe other will I have." "Thou art a madman," said the sheriffe, "Thou sholdst have had a knightes fee; But seeing thy asking hath beene soe bad, Well granted it shale be." When Little John heard his master speake, Well knewe he it was his steven; "Now shall I be looset," quoth Little John, "With Christ his might in heaven." Fast Robin hee hyed him to Little John, He thought to loose him belive: The sheriffe and all his companye Fast after him can drive. "Stand abacke, stand abacke," sayd Robin; "Why draw you mee so neere? Itt was never the use in our countrye, |
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