Robin Hood / A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

by Unknown

To-day will your hangman be ?

Some suits, some suits, the sheriff he said,

Some suits, I’ll give to thee ;

Some suits, some suits, and pence thirteen,

To-day’s a hangman’s fee.

Then Robin he turns him round about,

And jumps from stock to stone :

By the truth of my body, the sheriff he said,

That’s well jumpt, thou nimble old man.

I was ne’er a hangman in all my life,