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And that ye might for your delight

No longer make delay Rather than ye should thus for me

Be called an ill wom&n Yet would I to the green-wood go,

Alone, a banished man.

She. Though it be sung of old and young

That I should be to blame, Theirs be the charge that speak so large

In hurting of my name : For I will prove that faithful love

It is devoid of shame ; In your distress and heaviness

To part with you the same : And sure all tho that do not so

True lovers are they none : For in my mind, of all mankind

I love but you alone.

He. I counsel you, Remember how

It is no maiden's law Nothing to doubt, but to run out

To wood with an outlaw. For ye must there in your hand bear

A bow ready to draw ; And as a thief thus must you live

Ever in dread and awe ; Whereby to you great harm might grow :

Yet had I liever than That I had to the green-wood go,

Alone, a banished man.

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