10. The cock he hadna craw'd but once,

And clappd his wings at a', When the youngest to the eldest said, "Brother, we must awa.

II. "The cock doth craw, the day doth daw,

The channerin' worm doth chide;
Gin2 we be mist out o our place,
A sair pain we maun bide.

12. "Fare ye weel, my mother dear!
Farewell to barn and byre!3

And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother's fire!"

3 stable. copses.

11 dreams. 14 they.

mett,

Under the leaves of lyne,

To see what marchandise they made Even at that same time.

23. "Good morrow, good fellow," quoth Sir Guy;

"Good morrow, good ffellow," quoth hee;

"Methinkes by this bow thou beares in thy hand,

A good archer thou seems to bee."

Did not shoote an inch the pricke

ffroe;

Guy was an archer good enoughe,

But he cold neere shoote soe.

31. The second shoote Sir Guy shott, He shott within the garlande; But Robin Hoode shott it better than hee,

For he clove the good prickewande.

Calles me Guye of good Gysborne."

35. "My dwelling is in the wood," sayes Robin;

"By thee I set right nought;

My name is Robin Hood of Barnesdale,

A ffellow thou has long sought."

36. He that had neither beene a kithe nor kin

Might have seene a full fayre sight, To see how together these yeomen went,

With blades both browne and bright;

37. To have seene how these yeomen together foug[ht]

Two howers of a summer's day;
Itt was neither Guy nor Robin Hood
That ffettled' them to flye away.

38. Robin was reacheles on2 a roote,

And stumbled at that tyde,

And Guy was quicke and nimble with-all,

And hitt him ore the left side.

39. "Ah, deere Lady!" sayd Robin

40. Robin thought on Our Lady deere, And soone leapt up againe,

And thus he came with an awkwarde1 stroke;

Good Sir Guy hee has slayne.

41. He tooke Sir Guys head by the hayre, And sticked itt on his bowes end: "Thou hast beene traytor all thy liffe, Which thing must have an ende."

42. Robin pulled forth an Irish kniffe,
And nicked Sir Guy in the fface,
That hee was never on a woman borne
Cold tell who Sir Guye was.

43. Saies, "Lye there, lye there, good Sir Guye,

And with me be not wrothe;

If thou have had the worse stroakes at my hand,

Thou shalt have the better cloathe."

44. Robin did off his gowne of greene, Sir Guye hee did it throwe; And hee put on that capull-hyde That cladd him topp to toe.

45. "The bowe, the arrowes, and litle horne,

And with me now I'le beare;
For now I will goe to Barne[s]dale,

To see how my men doe ffare."

46. Robin sette Guyes horne to his mouth, A lowd blast in it he did blow; That beheard the sheriffe of Nottingham,

As he leaned under a lowe.5

Itt blowes soe well in tyde,

For yonder comes that wighty yeo

man,

Cladd in his capull-hyde.

J maid.

57. Towards his house in Nottingam
He ffled ful fast away,
And soe did all his companye,

Not one behind did stay.

58. But he cold neither soe fast goe,
Nor away soe fast runn,

But Litle John, with an arrow broade,
Did cleave his heart in twinn.

ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH AND BURIAL

1. When Robin Hood and Little John Down a down a down a down

Went oer yon bank of broom

Said Robin Hood bold to Little
John,

"We have shot for many a pound."
Hey, etc.

2. "But I am not able to shoot one shot more,

My broad arrows will not flee;
But I have a cousin lives down below,
Please God, she will bleed me."

3. Now Robin he is to fair Kirkly gone, As fast as he can win;

But before he came there, as we do
hear,
He was taken

very

ill.

4. And when he came to fair Kirkly-hall, He knockd all at the ring,

But none was so ready as his cousin herself

For to let bold Robin in.

5. "Will you please to sit down, cousin Robin," she said,

"And drink some beer with me?" "No, I will neither eat nor drink,

Till I am blooded by thee."

6. "Well, I have a room, cousin Robin," she said,

"Which you did never see,
And if you please to walk therein,
You blooded by me shall be."

7. She took him by the lily-white hand,
And led him to a private room,
And there she blooded bold Robin

Hood,

While one drop of blood would run down.