ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, &c.

Cloudesly bent a right good bow,
That was of a trusty tree

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6. THE FROLICKSOME DUKE. (Frontispiece.)

Now he lay something late, in his rich bed of state,
Till at last knights and squires, they on him did wait . .

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7. CHEVY CHASE.

Then leaving life, Earl Percy took
The dead man by the hand

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8. KING EDWARD AND THE TANNER.

The tanner he pulld, the tanner he sweat,
And held by the pummel fast .

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9. THE HEIR OF LINNE.

And he pulld forth three bags of gold,
And laid them down upon the board

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THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY.

Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold,
And he met his shepherd a going to fold

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13. ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR.

The friar took Robin Hood on his back,
Deep water he did bestride.

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14. THE MARRIAGE OF ALLEN-A-DALE.

He ask'd them seven times in the church,
Lest three times should not be enough

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15. VALENTINE AND URSINE.

And kneeling down upon his knee,
Presents him to the king

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16. THE MILLER OF MANSFIELD.

Well, quo' the miller's wife, young man, ye're welcome here;
And, though I say it, well lod gèd shall be .

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THEN shaws* be sheen, t and swards full fair,

And leaves both large and long,
It is merry walking in the fair forest

To hear the small birds song.

The woodweel I sang, and would not cease,

Sitting upon the spray,
So loud, he wakened Robin Hood,

In the greenwood where he lay.

Now by my faith, said jolly Robin,

A sweaven I had this night;
I dreamt me of two wight yeomen,

That fast with me can fight.

* Woods.

+ Shining

# A kind of thrush.

§ Dream.

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