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ROBYN HODE.
287
P. 217. And let no man come in
And arme you welk and make you redy
And to the walles ye wynne
For one thynge robyn I the behote*
I swere by saynt quyntyne* 610
These xb dayes thou wonnest with men
To soupe ete and dyne
Bordes were layde and clothes were spredde
Redely & anone CL Roby« hode & his mery men*
To mete can they gone C The ♦vi« fytte* 615
I^/ythe and lysten gentylmen
And herkyn to your songe.
Howe the proude shyref of notyngham
And men of armys stronge*
Fulk fast cam to the hye shyref* 620
The centre vp to route
And they besette the knyghtes castelF*
The walles alle aboute
The proude shyref loude gan crye*
And sayde thou traytour knight 625
Thou kepest here the kynges enemys
Agaynst the lawe and right
Sir I wylle auowe that I haue done
The dedys that here be dyght*
Upon a\\e the landes that I haue 630
As I am a trewe knyght*
wende furth sirs on your way
And do no more to me
Ty\\e ye wyt cure kynges welle
what he wylk say to the 635
The shyref thus had his answere
Without any lesynge
Furth he yede to london towne
618. ofnotyngham. 638. Corner of MS. cut off.
287
P. 217. And let no man come in
And arme you welk and make you redy
And to the walles ye wynne
For one thynge robyn I the behote*
I swere by saynt quyntyne* 610
These xb dayes thou wonnest with men
To soupe ete and dyne
Bordes were layde and clothes were spredde
Redely & anone CL Roby« hode & his mery men*
To mete can they gone C The ♦vi« fytte* 615
I^/ythe and lysten gentylmen
And herkyn to your songe.
Howe the proude shyref of notyngham
And men of armys stronge*
Fulk fast cam to the hye shyref* 620
The centre vp to route
And they besette the knyghtes castelF*
The walles alle aboute
The proude shyref loude gan crye*
And sayde thou traytour knight 625
Thou kepest here the kynges enemys
Agaynst the lawe and right
Sir I wylle auowe that I haue done
The dedys that here be dyght*
Upon a\\e the landes that I haue 630
As I am a trewe knyght*
wende furth sirs on your way
And do no more to me
Ty\\e ye wyt cure kynges welle
what he wylk say to the 635
The shyref thus had his answere
Without any lesynge
Furth he yede to london towne
618. ofnotyngham. 638. Corner of MS. cut off.
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| Description | Together with the Chepman and Myllar prints. Edited by the late George Stevenson. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1918. A "supplementary volume" to The poems of Alexander Montgomerie, edited by James Cranstoun, and published by the Scottish Text Society in 1886-7. Three of the earliest collections of Scottish verse of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Preface by H. W. Meikle, who completed the introduction and notes after the editor's death. |
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