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 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 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 horses 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 good;

Thirty, who did as captives yield,
 * were carried to the green wood;

Which afterwards were ransomed
 * for twenty merks a man.

The rest set spurs to horse and fled
 * to the town of Warrington.

The Bishop sore enraged then,
 * did in king Richard’s name.

Muster up a power of northern men
 * these out-laws bold to tame: