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