NOW ROBIN LEND ME THY BOW
(learned from Mary C. Taylor and other sources)
(other verses)
My hounds shall be led in the line.
Adieu, good Wilkin, all beshrewed,
With that, the Lady, she came in,
(from miriam berg's collection of rounds)
My Lady will to Uppingham,
To Uppingham, forsooth, will she,
And I myself appointed for to be the man
To wait on my Lady.
So well can I assure it thee;
Unless by view of strain some pursue I may find,
To please my sweet Lady.
Thy hunting nothing pleases me,
But yet beware thy babbling hounds stray not abroad,
For ang'ring thy Lady.
And willed them all for to agree;
For honest hunting ne'er was so accounted sin,
Nor never shall for me.