ROBIN HOOD AND THE TINKER.
Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 41.
From an old black-letter copy in the library of Anthony à Wood. The full title is,
A new song to drive away cold winter, Between Robin Hood and the jovial tinker:
How Robin by a wile
The Tinker he did cheat;
But at the length, as you shall hear,
The Tinker did him beat,
Whereby the same they did then so agree,
They after liv'd in love and unity.
To the tune of, In Summer time.
In summer time, when leaves grow green,
Down, a down, a down,
And birds singing on every tree,
Hey down, a down, a down,
Robin Hood went to Nottingham,
Down, a down, a down,
As fast as hee could dree.
Hey down, a down, a down.
And as hee came to Nottingham,5
A tinker he did meet,
And seeing him a lusty blade,
He did him kindly greet.
"Where dost thou live?" quoth Robin Hood,
"I pray thee now mee tell:10
Sad news I hear there is abroad,
I fear all is not well."