And another at my feet ; [331]

And lay my bent bow by my side,

Which was my music sweet ;

And make my grave of gravel and green,

Which is most right and meet.

Let me have length and breadth enough,

With a green sod under my head ; [332] {339}

That they may say, when I am dead,

Here lies bold Robin Hood.

These words they readily promis’d him,