human
Is this well tolde? said lytell Much. Johan sayd,
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What greveth the? It is almes to helpe a gentyll knyght 275 That is fall in povertè.
human
For ye have scarlet and grene, mayster, And many a ryche aray; There is no marchaunt in mery Englònde, So ryche, I dare well saye.
gpt
Take hym thre yerdes of every coloure, 285 And loke that well mete it be:
human
What devilkyns draper, sayd litell Much,
gpt
Thynkyst thou to be?
human
By god allmyght, Johan may gyve hym the better mesure; 295 By god, it cost him but lyght.
gpt
Mayster, sayd Lytell Johan, All unto Robyn Hode,
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Ye must gyve that knight an hors, To lede home al this good.
gpt
Take hym a gray courser, sayd Robyn,
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And a sadell newe; He is our ladyes messengere, God lene that he be true.
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And a good palfraye, sayd lytell Moch, 305
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To mayntayne hym in his ryght:
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And a payre of botes, sayd Scathelocke,
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For he is a gentyll knyght.
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What shalt thou gyve him, Lytel Johan? sayd Robyn.
human
Syr, a payre of gylte spores clene, 310 To pray for all this company: God brynge hym out of tene!
gpt
Whan shall my daye be, sayd the knyght,
human
Syr, and your wyll be?
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This daye twelve moneth, sayd Robyn, 315
human
Under this grene wode tre.
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I shall the lene Lytyll Johan my man, For he shall be thy knave; In a yemans steed he may the stonde, Yf thou grete nede have.
human
in the reign of Henry the Eighth. From the depths of this retreat to Doncaster the distance is less than ten miles, and to Nottingham, in a straight line, about fifty. A little to the north of Barnsdale is Pontefract, and a little to the northwest is Wakefield, and beyond this the Priory of Kirklees. Mr. Hunter, whom we follow here, has shown by contemporary evidence that Barnsdale was infested by robbers in the days of the Edwards.
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In the last year of the reign of King Edward the First, the bishops of St. Andrew's and Glasgow, and the Abbot of Scone were conveyed, at the King's charge, from Scotland to Winchester. In this journey they had a guard, sometimes of eight archers, sometimes of twelve; but when they had got as far south as Daventry, they had no archers at all in attendance, and proceeded without a guard, in three days from thence to Winchester. But when they passed from Pontefract to Tickhill, the guard had been increased to the number of twenty archers, and the reason given in the account of the expenses of their journey, for this addition to the cost of the conveyance, is given in the two words, _propter Barnsdale_.
human
The Sayles, is a place no longer known, but it is certain that there was formerly a place of the name in Barnsdale or near it.
gpt
It was a very small tenancy of the manor of Pontefract, being not more than the tenth of a knight's fee