The mony come count, and let me mount,

For a butcher I fain would be.

Now Robin he is to Nottingham gone,

His butchers trade to begin ;

With good intent to the sheriff he went,

And there he took up his inn. {177}

When other butchers they opened their meat,

Bold Robin he then begun ;

But how for to sell he knew not well,

For a butcher he was but young.