Note 52 — 117 A GEST OF ROBYN HODE

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Myselfe remembreth of a childe, in contreye native mine,

A Maygame was of Robyn Hood, and of his traine, that time,

To traine up young men, stripplings, and eche other younger childe,

In shooting; yearely this with solempne feast was by the guylde

Or brotherhood of townsmen don, etc.

Richard Robinson, 1553, in Ritson, p. cxii f, ed. 1832.