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 THE HISTORY OF ADAM BELL, CLIM of the CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM of CLOUDESLIE. MERRY ’twas in the green foreft, Among the leaves fo green, Whereas men hunt both east and weft, With bows and arrows keen, To raife the deer out of the den, Such fights have not been feen, 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 Cloudeflie, An Archer good enough, They were out-law’d for veniton, Thofe yeomen every on: They fwore them brethren on a day, To Englifh woods to gang. How lyth and liften, gentlemen, That merry love to be, Since two of them were fingle men, The third wedded free.