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
281^1. take.
281^2. wend.
283^3. And they that shoote all of the best.
283^4. The best.
284^1. all of the best.
284^3. of goodly.
285^1. he should.
285^3. and feathers.
285^4. the like.
286^2. his trusty.
286^3. ye ready you wight yeomen.
287^1. merry yeomen.
287^3. I shall know.
288^2. Their takles.
288^3. of _wanting_: wight yeomen.
289^3. were: archers.
289^4. shot.
291^1. The first.
291^4. the buttes where.
292^2. he claue.
292^4. lilly-white.
293^4. they would.
294^3. then was.
295^1. To him.
295^3. guift full.
295^4. then would.
296^2. A great horn gan he.
297^1. be to thee.
297^2. Thus cheering.
297^3. An other promise thou madest to me.
297^4. Within the greene.
298^1. But and I had thee there againe.
298^2. the trusty.
298^3. giue me.
299^3. was torne.
300^4. away beliue.
301^1. broke.
301^4. the _for_ that.
302^1. he was.
302^2. on the knee.
303^2. you loued.
305^2. thou off.
305^3. wounds so wide and long.
305^4. That I after eat no bread.
306^1. that _wanting_.
306^2. wert slaine.
306^4. Though I had it all by me.
307^1. forbid that: Much then.
307^4. Depart.
308^3. he set.
310^2. of the.
311^3. be thou _wanting_.
312^1. I do thee thanke for.
312^{2,3}. And for.
313^1. all the.
314^4. the wall.
315^1. thee hite.
315^2. And sweare.
315^3. Thou shalt these twelue daies abide with me.
316^2. Ready and.
316^4. gan.
317^2. hearken vnto the.
317^3. sheriffe began.
319^3. there: enemies.
319^4. all law.
320^1. what I.
320^4. a _wanting_.
321^2. doe ye.
321^3. you wit your.
322^3. he went.
323^4. noble were and.
324^1. He would: had.
324^3. He would.
325^1. said the.
325^4. will I.
326^1. Goe home thou proude: sayde our kynge _wanting_.
326^2. I you bid.
329^4. Therefore had.
330^1. there he.
330^3. that gentle.
331^1. Euer awaited that.
331^2. of the.
331^4. his hauke.
332^1. To betray this gentle knight.
332^3. him home.
332^4. Ybound.
333^2. on a tree.
333^3. had rather then a.
333^4. That Robin hood had hee.
334^1. Then the lady the.
334^2. a _wanting_.
335^1. to the.
335^3. There found she.
335^4. merry menye.
336^3. loue _for_ sake.
337^1. Let thou.
337^3. bound.
338^2. so _wanting_.
338^3. thy lord ytake.
338^4. The proud sheriffe then said she.
339.
he is not yet passed three miles,
you may them ouertake:
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