HE.

If ye go thyder, ye muft confyder,
Whan ye have luft to dyne,

There shall no mete be for you gete,

Nor drinke, bere, ale, ne wyne.

Ne fhetés clene to lye betwene,

Maden of threde and twyne;

None other house, but leves and bowes,
To cover your hed and myne.

O myne harte fwete, this evyll dyéte
Sholde make you pale and wan;
Wherfore I wyll to the grene wode go,
Alone, a banyshed man.

195

200

SHE.

Amonge the wylde dere, fuch a archére,

205

As men say that ye be,

Ne may nat fayle of good vitayle,

Where is fo grete plentè:

And water clere of the ryvére

Shall be full fwete to me;

With which in hele I shall ryght wele

Endure, as ye fhall fee:

And, or we go, a bedde or two

I can provyde anone;

For, in my mynde, of all mankynde

I love but you alone.

210

215

HE.

Ver. 196. Neyther bere. Prol. Ver. 207. May ye nat fayle. Prol.

HE.

Lo yet, before, ye muft do more,

Yf ye wyll go with me:

As cut your here up by your ere,

Your kyrtel by the kne;

With bowe in hande, for to withstande

Your enemyes, yf nede be:

And this fame nyght before day-lyght,

To wode-warde wyll I fle.

Yf that ye wyll all this fulfill,

Do it shortely as ye can;

Els wyll I to the grene wode go,

Alone, a banyshed man,

SHE.

220

225

It is fayd of olde, Sone hote, fone colde;

Ver. 251. For I must to the grene wode go. Prol. Ver. 253. vet is. Camb. Copy. Perhaps jof yt is. Ver.262. dy with him. Editor's MS.

Ver. 278. outbrayd, Prol. Ver. 282. ye be as. Prol.
Ver. 283. Ye were unkynde to leve me behynde. Prol.

HE.

And she shall fynde me foft, and kynde,

305

Ver 310 So the Editor's MS. All the printed copies read,

Yet wolde I be that one.

HE