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 ( 12 ) Then William ecaft his eyes afide, Into the market-place, And faw his two brethren prepar’d The Juftice for to chace, I fee comfprt, faid Cloudeflie ; Yet hope I well to fere. If I might have my hands fet fret Right little might I care. Then at laft fpoke godd Adam Bell; To Clim o’th’ Clough fo free, Brother fee you mark Juftice well. Yonder you may him fee. Now at the’ Sheriff fhoot I will. Strong with an arrow keen : A better fhot of merry Carlifle, Thefe feven years was not feen. Then loos’d their arrows both at once. Of no man they had dread ; One hit the Juftice, t’other the Sheriff, That both their fides ’gan to bleed, All men voided that ftood night, When Juftice fell to the ground. And the Sheriff dropp’d nigh him by; Either has his death’s wound All the citizens ’gan to fly, They durft do longer abide ; There lightly they Jods’d-Cloudeflie, Where he with ropes lay ty’d;, William ftepp’d to an officer o’ the town, The ax -from his hand wrung, {{illegible {{illegible}}