In the Garland version Robin goes alone to Kirklees, where his ‘cousin’ bleeds him, and leaves him to bleed all day and all night in a locked room. He summons Little John with ‘weak blasts three’ of his horn, and bids him dig a grave where the last arrow shot by Robin Hood falls.
ROBIN HOOD’S DEATH
1.
‘I will never eat nor drink,’ Robin Hood said,
‘Nor meat will do me no good,
Till I have been at merry Churchlees,
My veins for to let blood.’
2.
2.1 ‘rede,’ advise.
‘That I rede not,’ said Will Scarlett,