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 Alas! then said the little boy

Ye tarry here too long,

Cloudeslie is taken dampned to death,

And ready for to honge.

Alas! then said good Adam Bell,

That ever we saw this day;

He had better have tarried with us,

As oft we did him pray.

He might have dwelt in the green forest,

Under the shadows green;

And have kept both him and us at rest,

Out of all trouble and teen.

Adam bent a right good bow,

A great hart soon he slayne:

Take that child, he said to thy dinner,

And bring mine arrow againe.

Now go we hence, said these wyghtye yeomen,

Tarry we no longer here;

We shall him borrowe by God his grace,

Though we buy it full dere.

To Carlile went these bold yeomen,

All in a morning of May,

Here is one fit of Cloudeslie

And another is to say.

And when they came to merry Carlile,

All in the morning tide,

They found the gates them shut untill

About on every side.