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6. Her breath was strang, her hair was lang,

And twisted was about the tree, And with a swing she came about: "Come to Craigy's sea, and kiss with me.

7. "Here is a royal belt," she cried, "That I have found in the green sea; And while your body it is on,

Drawn shall your blood never be; But if you touch me, tail or fin,

I vow my belt your death shall be."

8. He stepped in, gave her a kiss,

The royal belt he brought him wi; Her breath was strang, her hair was lang,

And twisted twice about the tree, And with a swing she came about: "Come to Craigy's sea, and kiss with me.

9. "Here is a royal ring," she said,

"That I have found in the green sea;
And while your finger it is on,
Drawn shall your blood never be;
But if you touch me, tail or fin,

I swear my ring your death shall be."

10. He stepped in, gave her a kiss,

The royal ring he brought him wi; Her breath was strang, her hair was lang,

And twisted ance about the tree, And with a swing she came about: "Come to Craigy's sea, and kiss with me.

II. "Here is a royal brand," she said,

"That I have found in the green sea; And while your body it is on,

Drawn shall your blood never be; But if you touch me, tail or fin,

I swear my brand your death shall be."

12. He stepped in, gave her a kiss,

The royal brand he brought him wi; Her breath was sweet, her hair grew short,

And twisted nane about the tree, And smilingly she came about,

As fair a woman as fair could be.

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10. The cock he hadna craw'd but once,

And clappd his wings at a', When the youngest to the eldest said, "Brother, we must awa.

II. "The cock doth craw, the day doth daw,

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The channerin1 worm doth chide;
Gin2 we be mist out o our place,
A sair pain we maun bide.

12. "Fare ye weel, my mother dear!

Fareweel to barn and byre!3
And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother's fire!"

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3. "Me thought they did mee beate and binde,

And tooke my bowe mee froe;

If I bee Robin alive in this lande,
I'le be wrocken10 on both them
towe."

4. "Sweavens11 are swift, master," quoth John,

"As the wind that blowes ore a hill; Ffor if itt be never soe lowde this night,

To-morrow it may be still."

5. "Buske12 yee, bowne13 yee, my merry men all,

Ffor John shall goe with mee;
For I'le goe seeke yond wight yeomen
In greenwood where the14 bee."

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10. "It is noe cunning a knave to ken, And a man but heare him speake; And itt were not for bursting of my bowe,

John, I wold thy head breake."

11. But often words they breeden bale;17 That parted Robin and John; John is gone to Barn[e]sdale,

The gates18 he knowes eche one.

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22. How these two yeomen together they 30. The first good shoot that Robin ledd,

mett,

Under the leaves of lyne,

To see what marchandise they made
Even at that same time.

23. "Good morrow, good fellow," quoth Sir Guy;

"Good morrow, good ffellow," quoth hee;

"Methinkes by this bow thou beares

in thy hand,

A good archer thou seems to bee."

Did not shoote an inch the pricke

ffroe;

Guy was an archer good enoughe,

But he cold neere shoote soe.

31. The second shoote Sir Guy shott, He shott within the garlande; But Robin Hoode shott it better than hee,

For he clove the good prickewande.

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36. He that had neither beene a kithe nor kin

Might have seene a full fayre sight, To see how together these yeomen went,

With blades both browne and bright;

37. To have seene how these yeomen together foug[ht]

Two howers of a summer's day;
Itt was neither Guy nor Robin Hood
That ffettled' them to flye away.

38. Robin was reacheles on2 a roote,

And stumbled at that tyde,

And Guy was quicke and nimble with-all,

And hitt him ore the left side.

39. "Ah, deere Lady!" sayd Robin Hoode,

"Thou art both mother and may! 3 I thinke it was never mans destinye To dye before his day."

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