Your horn did sound so shrill.
Nay nay, now nay, quoth Robin Hood,
The danger is past and gone ;
I would have you welcome my nephew here,
That has paid me two for one.
In feasting and sporting they passed the day,
Till Phœbus sunk into the deep ;
Then each one to his quarters hy’d,
His guard there for to keep.
Long had they not walked within the green-wood,