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Our chronicles of him report, That commonly he rode, With a thousand horse from court to court, Where he would make abode: He riding down towards the north, With his aforesaid train; Robin and his men did issue forth, Them all to entertain.

And with the gallant grey goose wing, They shew'd to them such play, They made their houses kick and fling, And down their riders lay. Full glad and fain the bishop was, For all his thousand men, To seek what means he could to pass From out of Robin's ken.

Two hundred of his men were kill'd,                      And fourscore horses goods; Thirty, who did as captives yield, Were carried to the green-wood; Which afterwards were ransomed For twenty marks a man, The rest set spurs to horse and fled To the town of Warrington.