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 With banqueting and merriment,
 * and having uſed them well.

He to to their Lord them ſafely ſent,
 * and willed them to tell

That if he would be pleas'd at laſt,
 * to beg of our good King,

That he might pardon what was paſt,
 * and him to favour bring,

He would ſurrender back again
 * the money that before

Was taken by him and his men
 * from him and many more.

Poor men might ſafely go by him,
 * and ſome that way did chuſe

For well they knew that to help them,
 * he evermore did uſe

But where he knew a miſer rich,
 * that did the poor oppreſs

To feel their coin his hands did itch,
 * he had it more or leſs.

Nay, ſometimes when the highway ,
 * then he his courage rouses,

He and his men have oft aſſailed
 * ſuch rich men in their houſes.

So their dread of Robin Hood.
 * and his adventrous crew

The miſer's kept great ſtore of men,
 * who elſe maintain'd but few

King Richard o' that name the firſt,
 * ſir-nam'd Cour de Lyon,