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 THE

OF

ADAM BILL, CLIM of the CLOUGH,

AND

WILLIAM of CLOUDESLIE.

ERRY ’twas in the green forest,

Among the leaves so green,

Whereas men hunt both east and west,

With bows and arrows keen,

To raise the deer out of the den,

Such fights have not been seen,

As by three men of the North country,

By them it is I mean.

The one of them high Adam Bell,

Another Clim of the Clough;

The third was William of Cloudeslie,

An archer good enough.

They were out-law’d for venison,

Those yeomen every one;

They swore them brethren on a day,

To English woods to gang.

Now lyth and listen, gentlemen,

That merry love to be;

Since two of them were single men,

The third wedded free.