They call’d aloud to those bold outlàws,

And charged them to stand. {270}

Why, who are you, cry’d bold Robìn,

That ‘speak’ so boldly here ?

“We three belong to King Henry,

And are keepers of his deer.”

The devil ‘you are !’ sayes Robin Hood,

I am sure that it is not so ;

We be the keepers of this forrèst,

And that you soon shall know.