and as Robin readily agreed to this, he sounded his "whues three," and immediately—

Halfe a hundred good band-dogs

Came running o'er the lee.

"Here's for every man a dog

And I myself for thee."

"Nay, by my faith," said Robin Hood,

"Fryer, that may not be."

Two dogs at once to Robin Hood did goe.

The one behinde, the other before;

Robin Hood's mantle of Lincoln greene