12 ‘Ho xal ȝeue þe ferste schote?’ Seyde Ga_n_deleyn: ‘And I xul ȝeue þe on be-forn,’ Seyde Wrennok ageyn. 13 Wrennok schette a ful good schote, And he schet not to hye; Þrow þe sa_n_choþis of his bryk; It towchyd neyþ_er_ thye. 14 ‘Now hast þu ȝouy_n_ me on be-forn,’ Al þus to Wrennok seyde he, ‘And þrow þe myȝt of o_ur_ lady A better_e_ I xal ȝeue þe.’ 15 Gandeleyn bent his goode bowe, And set þ_er_ in a flo; He schet þrow his grene certyl, His h_er_te he clef on too. 16 ‘Now xalt þu neu_er_ ȝelpe, Wrennok, At ale ne at wyn, Þ_a_t þu hast slawe goode Roby_n_, And his knaue Gandeleyn. 17 ‘Now xalt þu neu_er_ ȝelpe, Wrennok, At wyn ne at ale, Þ_a_t þu hast slawe goode Roby_n_, And Ga_n_deley_n_ his knaue.’ Roby_n_ lyȝth in grene wode bowndy_n_ * * * * * _Written continuously, without division of stanzas or verses. The burden, put after 1, stands at the head of the ballad._ And _for_ & _always_. 1^4. gynge. 4^3. I now. 4^5. Robyn _wanting_. 5^1. went. 7^6. Ti I. 9^3. & xx. 10^2. hir. 12^3. ȝewe. 12^4. seyd. 14^3. þ^u myȝt. 17^4. Ga_n_delyyn: knawe. _Last line_: bowdy_n_. 116 ADAM BELL, CLIM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY #a.# Two fragments, stanzas 113^4–128^2, 161^2–170, of an edition by John Byddell, London, 1536: Library of the University of Cambridge.[4] #b.# A fragment, stanzas 53^3–111^3, by a printer not identified: formerly in the possession of J. Payne Collier.[5] #c.# ‘Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of cloudesle,’ William Copeland, London [1548–68]: British Museum, C. 21, c. 64.[6] #d.# ‘Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesle,’ James Roberts, London, 1605: Bodleian Library, C. 39, Art. Selden. #e.# Another edition with the same title-page: Bodleian Library, Malone, 299. #f.# ‘Adam Bell, Clime of the Cloug[he], and William off Cloudeslee,’ Percy MS., p. 390: British Museum. Hales and Furnivall, III, 76. ‘Adam Bell’ is licensed to John Kynge in the Stationers’ Registers, 19 July, 1557–9 July, 1558: Arber, I, 79. Again, among copies which were Sampson Awdeley’s, to John Charlewood, 15 January, 1582; and, among copies which were John Charlwoode’s, to James Robertes, 31 May, 1594: Arber, II, 405, 651. Seven reprints of the seventeenth century, later than #d#, are noted in Mr W. C. Hazlitt’s Handbook, p. 35.