Robin Hood / A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

by Unknown

Then Robin was stout, and turned him about,

And a little house there he did spy ;

And to an old wife, for to save his life,

He loud began for to cry.

Why, who art thou ? said the old womàn,

Come tell to me for good.

“I am an out-law, as many do know,

My name it is Robin Hood ;

And yonder’s the bishop and all his men,

And if that I taken be,