CHAPTER I
HOW ROBIN HOOD BECAME AN OUTLAW
List and hearken, gentlemen,That be of free-born blood,I shall you tell of a good yeoman,His name was Robin Hood.Robin was a proud outlaw,While as he walked on the ground.So courteous an outlaw as he was oneWas never none else found.
In the days of good King Harry the Second of England—he of the warring sons—there were certain forests in the north country set aside for the King's hunting,...
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