Robin askt him courteously,

O, hast thou any money to spare

For my merry men and me ?

I have no money, the young man said,

But five shillings and a ring ;

And that I have kept this seven long years,

To have it at my wedding.

Yesterday I should have married a maid,

But she from[296] me was tane,

And chosen to be an old knights delight,