Were patch’d both beneath and aboon ;
Then Robin Hood swore a solemn oath,
It’s good habit that makes a man. {307}
Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone,
With a link a down and a down,
And there he met with the proud sherìff,
Was walking along the town.
Oh ‘Christ you’ save, oh, sheriff, he said,[324]
Oh ‘Christ you save and’ see ;
And what will you give to a silly old man