At the last shot that Robyn shot, For all his frendes fare, Yet he fayledof the garlonde, Thre fyngers and mare.
Swannes and fesauntes they had full good, And foules of the revere; 130 There fayled never so lytell a byrde, That ever was bred on brere.
To a quequer Roben went, A god bolt owthe he toke; So ney on to the marke he went, He fayled not a fothe.
The sheryf there fayled of Robyn Hode, He myght not have his pray; Then he awayted that gentyll knyght, 55 Bothe by nyght and by daye.
And so sone as the king knew therof, he fayled not to visite his Lady, and the gentleman the night following went to the Castle to salute the Queene, to do the office of the kinge's Lieutenaunt, so secretly as no man did perceiue it.
For alwayes when the Queenes were at church to heare deuine seruice, he fayled not to bee there.
Wost thou not wel, I fayled never wight, but he me refused and wolde negligently go with unkyndenesse?
And goodnesse of this Margaryte 110 is nothing els but vertue; wherfore she is vertuous; and if therefayled any vertue in any syde, there were lacke of vertue.
Fole, have I not seyd toforn this, as tyme hurteth, right so ayenward tyme heleth 95 and rewardeth; and a tree oft fayled is holde more in deyntee whan it frute forth bringeth.
When money fayled in the lade of Egipte & of Canaan/ all the Egiptians came vnto Ioseph and sayde: geue us sustenaunce: wherfore suffrest thou vs to dye before the/ for oure money is spent.
Neither of them for all this perceiued themselues to be deluded, or conceyued any suspition of collusion for that the chamber was still without light, and in the day the Women commonly fayled not to be together.
The Gentleman fayled not to gyue her heartye Thankes, prayinge hir to tarry vntyll hee had written his letters: whereunto she most willingly obeyed.
And thinking to vse some further talke, all the powers of hir body fayled hir wyth signes of present death.
Dom Diego fayled not to ioyne wyth hys mystresse, after whome folowed the rest of that noble trayne, euery of them as they thought best.
His man faylednot to speede himselfe with diligence: and being come before Gineura, he presented that which his maister had sent hir.
For in the beginning of March (as it is vsuall in all regions) being in the Sea oppressed with Northerne windes, and ryding there, wee found our anchor broken before the earth fayled or mooued at all.
But the ground vnderfoot being slipperie with the snow on the side of the hill, their handfast fayled and their prey escaping ranne away and lightly recouered their bow and arrowes, which they had hid not farre from them behind the rockes.
The best expositor of the Revelacion a nobleman in Scotland,[158] whoe hath taken Christian and learned paynes therein, yet fayled in the computacion of the beginning of the yeares.
After wee were ready to depart, Captain Ribault commanded to shoote off our ordnance, to give a farewell unto our Frenchmen; which faylednot to do the like on their part.
Till Robyn fayled of the garlonde, Three fyngers and mair.
There fayled never so lytell a byrde, That ever was bred on brere.
Lytell Johan and good Scathelocke, For nothynge wolde they spare; When they fayled of the garlonde, Robyn smote them full sore.
The shyref there fayledof Robyn Hode, He myght not have his pray; Than he awayted this gentyll knyght, Bothe by nyght and day.
At the last shot that Robyn shot, For all his frendës fare, Yet hefayled of the garlonde Thre fyngers and mare.
Swannes and fessauntes they had full gode, And foules of the ryvere; There fayled none so litell a birde That ever was bred on bryre.
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