And he walked on along the way,
To Robin Hood then unknown.
A herd of deer was in the bend,
All feeding before his face :
“Now the best of you ile have to my dinner,
And that in a little space.”
Now the stranger he made no mickle adoe,
But he bends and a right good bow,
And the best of all the herd he slew,
Forty good yards him froe.[298]