He offer’d to seize him there,
Which William Locksley by fortune did see,
And bid him that trick to forbear.
Then Robin Hood set his horn to his mouth,
And blew a blast or twain,
And so did the knight, at which there in sight
The archers came all amain.
Sir William with care he drew up his men,
And plac’d them in battle-array ;
Bold Robin, we find, he was not behind :