Excerpt: ... lynd; He robbed me once of a hundred pound, It shall never out of my mind.' 101 24. 24.2 'radly, ' quickly: 'yare, ' ready. 24.3 See notes 8.1, 23.1. Up then rose this proud sheriff, And radly made him yare; Many was the mother son, To the kirk with him can fare. 25. 25.1 'throly thrast, ' strenuously pressed. 25.2 'wone, ' plenty. In at the doors they throly thrast, With staves full good wone; 'Alas, alas ' said Robin Hood, 'Now miss I Little John.' 26. 26.3 'Thereas' = where. Cf. 72.3. But Robin took out a two-hand sword That hanged down by his knee; Thereas the sheriff and his men stood thickest, Thitherward would he. 27. Thrice throughout them he ran then For sooth as I you say, And wounded many a mother son, And twelve he slew that day. 28. His sword upon the sheriff head Certainly he brake in two; 'The smith that thee made, ' said Robin, 'I pray God work him woe.' 102 29. 29.3 'But if' = unless. 'For now am I weaponless, ' said Robin, 'Alas against my will; But if I may flee these traitors fro, I wot they will me kill.' 30. 30.2 Cf. 16.4. Probably six stanzas are lost here. Robin into the churche ran, Throughout them everilkone, . . 31. Some fell in swooning as they were dead, And lay still as any stone; None of them were in their mind But only Little John. 32. 32.1 'rule, ' behaviour, conduct. 'Let be your rule, ' said Little John, 'For his love that died on tree; Ye that should be doughty men; It is great shame to see. 33. 'Our master has been hard bestood, And yet scaped away; Pluck up your hearts and leave this moan, And hearken what I shall say. 34. 34.2 'securly' = surely. 'He has served Our Lady many a day, And yet will, securly; Therefore I trust her specially No wicked death shall he die. 103 35. 'Therefore be glad, ' said Little John, 'And let this mourning be; And I shall be the monkes guide, With the might of mild Marie.' 36. . 'We will go but we two; And...