ROBIN HOODS DELIGHT:
Or, a merry combat fought between Robin Hood, Little John, and Will Scarelock, and three stout keepers in Sheerwood Forrest.
Robin was valiant and stout,
So was Scarelock and John in the field,
But these keepers stout did give them rout,
And make them all for to yield.
But after the battel ended was,
Bold Robin did make them amends,
For claret and sack they did not lack,
So drank themselves good friends.
To the tune of Robin Hood and Queen Katherine; or, Robin Hood and the Shepheard.
"From an old black-letter copy in the collection of Anthony à Wood." Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 120.
There's some will talk of lords and knights,
Doun, a doun, a doun,
And some of yeomen good,
But I will tell you of Will Scarlock,
Little John, and Robin Hood.
Doun, a doun, a doun, a doun.
They were outlaws, 'tis well known,5
And men of a noble blood;
And many a time was their valour shown
In the forrest of merry Sheerwood.
Upon a time it chanced so,
As Robin Hood would have it be,10
They all three would a walking go,
The pastime for to see.
And as they walked the forest along,
Upon a Midsummer day,
There was they aware of three keepèrs,15
Clad all in green aray.