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 give me soon thy coat of gray,

And take thou my mantle of green ;

Thy spindle and twine unto me resign,

And take thou my arrows so keen.”

And when Robin Hood was so araid,

He went straight to his company,

With his spindle and twine, he oft lookt behind,

For the bishop and his company.

O who is yonder, quoth little John,

That now comes over the lee ?