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
340.
Vp then start good Robin
as a man that has been wake:
Buske ye, my merry yeomen,
for him that dyed on a tree.
341^2. on a tree.
341^3. And by him that all things maketh.
341^4. shall dwell.
342^1. ybent.
342^2. More.
342^3. they spared none.
343^2. The knight.
343^3. if ye may him ouertake.
343^4. then shall he.
344^4. gan.
345^2. so fast.
345^4. thy boote.
347^1. full _wanting_.
347^2. at his.
349^1. the _for_ thou.
349^2. may thou.
349^3. to thee.
350^3. it on.
350^4. driue.
351^2. cut in.
353^2. leasind.
354^4. hode if.
355^1. them _for_ men.
356^2. vnderstood.
356^4. all the knights land.
357^1. The compasse of.
357^2. wend.
358^2. many a one.
358^3. finde any.
359^4. eyes.
360^2. vnto.
360^3. He should.
360^4. of _for_ at.
361^2. it with.
362^3. O my.
364^2. his best.
364^3. to no.
366^2. halt.
366^3. he slew.
366^4. And vsed.
368^2. now be.
368^3. by your.
368^4. a monks.
369^1. lodesman.
369^2. on the.
369^4. come at.
370^4. eyes.
371^1. hastily.
371^3. They were all: monks weeds.
371^4. thither blithe.
372^4. to _wanting_.
374^1. sommer.
374^3. Vntill.
375^2. by the.
376^3. sayd _wanting_.
376^4. you.
377^4. Other shift haue not wee.
378^2. good _for_ gold.
380^3. full _wanting_.
381^1. I _wanting_.
381^3. an.
381^4. I would giue it to thee.
382^2. And deuided it then did he.
382^3. Halfe he gaue to.
382^4. to _wanting_.
383^2. Syr _wanting_.
384^2. He hath sent.
385^1. broad seale.
386^3. be my.
387^1. tyding.
387^4. the trusty.
388^1. he had.
388^4. full was fast.
389^2. gan it.
389^3. wight yeomen.
389^4. running _for_ redy.
392^1. hastily: dight.
392^2. can.
393^4. the good ale browne.
394^4. may thou.
395^1. I _for_ we.
395^2. Or that.
395^3. maist.
395^4. be lend.
396^4. beene.
397^2. can.
400^{1,2}. A good buffet on his head beare for this shall be his
fine.
400^3. And those: fell in.
401^2. claue.
401^4. lilly white.
403^2. Fore: freends faire.
403^3. of _wanting_.
404^2. then _for_ thus.
405^4. syr _wanting_.
406^1. said y^e.
406^2. be _for_ by, _as often_.
407^2. largely.
407^4. folded.
408^4. a tall frier.
409^2. can.
409^4. gan they meet.
410^2. Stedfast in.
411^1. the said!
411^2. sawe.
412^1. said Robin to.
412^2. this trusty.
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