Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters

by Joseph Cundall

Where the wild deer so joyously bounds;

Where the foresters bold their gay revels hold,

And their bugle-horn cheerily sounds.’

“THOU’RT WELCOME MY LAD TO THE MERRY GREEN-WOOD.”

J. Gilbert

“Merrily and gaily did they pass the evening; now dancing round some old monarch of the forest, and now listening to the rude but pleasing ditty of one of their companions. At length the sun went down, and the deep shades of the forest began to draw around them. Robin Hood drew forth his bugle, sounded a few notes, and in a minute or two the whole band were dispersed in groups to their huts and caves.

ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER.

“Shortly after this merry-making Robin Hood was one morning sitting by the way-side, amusing himself with trimming his bow and arrows, when he espied a jolly butcher hastening to market with a basket of meat before him upon his horse.