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 ADAM BELL,

AND

WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE.

it was in the green forest,

Among the leaves so green,

Wheras men hunt both east and west,

With bows and arrows keen.

To raise the deer out of their den,

Such sights have oft been seen;

As by three yeomen of the north countrie

By them it is I mean.

One of them hight Adam Bell,

The other Clym of the Clough,

The third was William of Cloudeslie,

An archer good enough.

They were outlawed for venyson,

These yeomen, everychone;

They swore them brethren on a day

To Englewood to gone.

Now lith and listen, gentlemen

That of mirth love to here;

Two of them were single men,

The third had a wedded fere.