Ho, ho, said Robin Hood, I know what you mean,
Come, take your gold again ;
Be friends with me, and I with thee,
And so with every man.
Now, master sheriff, you are paid,
And since you are beginner,
As well as you give me my due,
For you ne’er paid for that dinner.
But if ‘that it’ should please the king,
So much your house to grace,