ROBYN HODE Passage shalt thou pai here under the grene-wode tre, Or els thou shalt leve a wedde with me. THE POTTER If thou be a good felowe, as men do the call, Laye awaye thy bowe, 190 And take thy sword and buckeler in thy hande, And se what shall befall. ROBIN HODE Lyttle John, where art thou? LYTTEL [JOHN] Here, mayster, I make God avowe. I tolde you, mayster, so God me save, 195 That you shoulde fynde the potter a knave. Holde your buckeler faste in your hande, And I wyll styfly by you stande, Ready for to fyghte; Be the knave never so stoute, 200 I shall rappe him on the snoute, And put hym to flyghte. _The rest is wanting._ * * * * * 121. to [me], _wanting in White_. 142. medled, _W._ 153. maryet. 154. the, _C._; thy, _W._ 186. to do: to _wanting in W_. 188. wedded, _C._; wed, _W._ 196. your, _C._; you, _W._ 122 ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER #A.# ‘Robin Hood and the Butcher,’ Percy MS., p. 7; Hales and Furnivall, I, 19. #B.# ‘Robin Hood and the Butcher.’ #a.# Wood, 401, 19 b. #b.# Garland of 1663, No 6. #c.# Garland of 1670, No 5. #d.# Pepys, II, 102, No 89. Other copies, of the second class, are in the Roxburghe collection, III, 259, and the Douce collection, III, 114. #B a# was printed, with changes, by Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 23; a copy resembling the Douce by Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 106.