Anonymous

“ Where venison sweet, they had to eat:
and were merry that present hour.
Great flaggons of wine were set on the board,
with a hey, &c.
and merrily they drunk round,
Their boules of sack, to strengthen the back,
whilst their knees did touch the ground. ”

“ Where Little John and Maid Marian
attended on bold Robin Hood.
In sollid content together they liv'd,
with a hey.
with all their yeomen gay,
They liv'd by there hands, without any lands,
and so they did many a day.
But now to conclude an end I will make,
with a hey, &c.
in time as I think it good,
For the people that dwell, in the North can tell,
of Marian and bold Robin Hood.
S. S.
FINIS.
S. S.
This work was published in 1700 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. ”