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Robin Hood

A New Musical Entertainment
  
  

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SCENE I.

SCENE, before Graspall's House.
Enter Robin Hood and Graspall.
Graspall.
I cannot yet the stubborn Girl subdue:
Try, good Sir Humphrey, try what you can do.

R. Hood.
I make no doubt to win the clay-cold Maid,
I'll answer for't she'll like my Serenade.
AIR.
I'll borrow the Wings of the Sparrow and Dove,
And then I will fly to discover my Love:
The People so low, who behold me so high,
Will wonder what strange sort of Bird's in the Sky:

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While still on I soar
To her I adore,
And till I get at her will never give o'er.