The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
223^1. a bowe.
223^2. Redy.
223^4. gan.
224^1. twoo and fifty wyght yemen.
224^2. abode but.
226^2. whan he did se.
229^1. an.
231^1. The made.
231^4. serued them.
234^2. mote I thryue or the.
236^2. Ye nede not so to saye.
236^3. hath brought it.
237^1. And _wanting_.
238^1. broughte.
238^3. the eft agayne.
238^4. of me.
240^3. right wise.
241^2. mayest.
242^1. made _wanting_.
242^3. I do the thanke.
243^4. So mote I thryue or the.
244^2. not out one.
244^3. hast nede.
244^4. shall I: to _wanting_.
245^1. fyne more sayd.
245^4. Thereof I wyll haue.
247^1. John layd.
247^3. he _wanting_.
247^4. hundreth poundes.
248^4. cost.
249^2. that tolde.
249^3. the trust.
252^1. A_n_d she haue nede of ony.
256^1. And what is on the other courser.
256^2. sothe we must.
256^3. than _wanting_.
259^4. _second_ in _wanting_.
263^1. light fro his.
263^2. can.
263^3. Right curteysly.
265^1. good Robin.
266^4. They would.
267^1. agayne.
267^3. than sayd.
267^4. that _wanting_.
268^1. no grefe: _printed in two lines_.
268^3. dyd helpe.
269^1. Now, by my treuthe than sayd.
269^2. For that, knight, thanke.
270^1. poundes.
270^3. there.
270^{3,4}. _printed in one line._
271^1. than _wanting_.
271^3. her high.
272^1. And I should take: twyse.
272^4. thou art.
273^1. And whan.
273^2. laughed and made.
274^4. Under this trusty.
275^2. fethered.
275^3. gentyl knyght.
276^2. My wyll done that it be.
277^3. bye the a hors.
277^4. the _for_ thy (_as_ me, be _for_ my, by).
279^2. I dyd lende.
280^2. of all his.
280^3. sytteth.
283^3. they that shote al of the best.
283^4. The best.
284^1. al of the best.
284^3. of goodly.
285^3. fethers.
286^2. his trusty.
286^3, 288^3. wyght yemen.
287^1. mery yemen.
287^3. I shall knowe.
288^2. Their arowes fethere free.
289^3. archers.
289^4. shote.
291^1. can.
292^2. he clefte.
292^4. the lylly white.
294^1. Whan that.
294^3. than was.
294^4. good Robin.
295^1. To him.
295^3. gyft full.
295^4. than would.
296^2. gan the.
297^2. Thus chering.
297^3. Another promyse thou made to me.
297^4. Within the wylde.
298^1. And I had y^e in the gr[e]ne forest.
298^2. trusty tree.
298^3. me leue.
300^4. away belyue.
301^4. Amonge the.
302^1. John he was hort.
302^2. in the.
303^2. loues.
304^4. nowe to.
305^2. smite thou of.
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