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 ( 22 ) There they fat up two hazel rods, Twenty fcore pace between. I hold an archer faid Cloudeflie, That cleaves yon wand in two; Here is no such, reply’d the king. For no man can do fo. I will affay, Sir, faid Cloudeflie, E’er that I further go; Cloudeflie, with a bearing arrow, Did cieave the wand in two. Thou’rt the belt archer, faid the king, That ever I did fee; But for your love, faid William, I’ll do more maflerly. I have a fen of feven years old, He is to me full dear, I will tie him unto a ftake. You fhall fee him that’s here. I’ll lay an apple on his head, Go fix fcore paces fro’, And I myfelf with broad arrow. Will cleave the apple in two. Go hafte the then' faid the good king, By him that died on tree; If thou do’ft not as thou haft faid, Hang’d furely wilt thou be ; But if thou touch his head or gown, In fight that men may iee, By all the ftars that are in heav’n, I hang you fhall all three.