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The Epitaph which the Prioress of the Monastry of Kirkslay in Yorkshire, set over Robin Hood, which (as before                     mentioned) was to be read within these hundred years, though in old broken English, much to the same sense and meaning

Decembris quarto Die 1198. Anno Regni Richardi, Primi IX.

Robert, Earl of Huntington, Lies under this little stone; No archer was like him so good, His wildness nam'd him Robin Hood. Full thirteen years and something more, These northern parts he vexed sore, Such out-laws as he and his men, May England never know again.

Some other superstitious words were in it which I thought fit to leave out.