We’ll go yon sport to see.” {325}
With that stept forth a brave young man,
David of Doncastèr,
Master, said he, be rul’d by me,
From the green wood we’ll not stir.
To tell the truth, I’m well inform’d,
Yon match it is a wile ;
The sheriff, I wiss, devises this
Us archers to beguile.
Thou smells of a coward, said Robin Hood,