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 took hold of the bishop’s horse,

And ty’d him fast to a tree ;

Then Little John smil’d his master upon,

For joy of that company.

Robin Hood took his mantle from’s back,

And spread it upon the ground,

And out of the bishops portmantle he

Soon told five hundred pound.

Now let him go, said Robin Hood.

Said little John, That may not be ;