They presently fetch’d him a brace of fat does,

With humming strong liquor likewise ;

They lov’d what was good ; so, in the green wood,

This pretty sweet babe they baptize.

He was, I must tell you, but seven foot high,

And, may be, an ell in the waste ;

A sweet pretty lad : much feasting they had ;

Bold Robin the christ’ning grac’d, {296}

With all his bowmen, which stood in a ring,

And were of the Nottingham breed ;