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The Epitaph which the Prioress set over Robin Hood, which as it is before mentioned, was to be read within three hundred years, though in Old English, much to the same sense and meaning as hereafter followeth.
Decembris Quaito Die, 1228.
ANNO REGIS RICAARL II.
Robert, Earl of Huntingdon,
Lies underneath this stone.
No Archer was like him so good.
His wildness nam’d him ROBIN HOOD.
Full thirteen years and something more,
These northern parts he vexed sore.
Such outlaws as he & his men
MAY ENGLAND NEVER. SEE AGAIN.
FINIS.
